The Siadar Wave Power Station (also known as Siadar Wave Energy Project or SWEP) was a proposed 4 MW

wave farm Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated by wind ...

off the shore of Siadar Bay, in Lewis, Scotland. The £30 million project, was to be built by Wavegen, received Scottish Government approval on 22 January 2009. Originally, the project was developed in cooperation with

npower Renewables Innogy SE was an energy company based in Essen, Germany. It is now merged and integrated into German energy company E.ON. History The company was created on 1 April 2016, by splitting the Renewable energy, renewable, network and retail busines ...

. However, in August 2011, npower Renewables left the project. In 2012 project was cancelled. The wave station was proposed to be based on oscillating water column technology. A

causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Tra ...

will be constructed, and a

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with 10 concrete caissons, containing 36 to 40

Wells turbine The Wells turbine is a low-pressure Wind turbine, air turbine that rotates continuously in one direction independent of the direction of the air flow. Its blades feature a symmetrical airfoil with its plane of symmetry in the plane of rotation an ...

s, placed on the seabed.

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Siadar Wave Power Scheme
at npower renewables

at Wavegen
Siadar Bay Wave Energy Project
at renewableenergydev.com {{Scottish energy 2011 in Scotland Isle of Lewis Buildings and structures in the Outer Hebrides Wave farms in Scotland Proposed renewable energy power stations in Scotland

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