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| Three CETO pumps installed at Perth test site |
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| Thursday, 04 September 2008 12:57 | |
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Three CETO II pumps have been successfully installed in Renewable Energy Holdings' Perth, Western Australia test site, it was announced this week (2nd September). The pumps are fully instrumented and connected to the on-shore facilities, and are performing within their design specification. This is, says the company, the first time that multiple CETO II pumps have been installed and operated together in an array format. Following the successful completion of this stage of the development programme, a full-scale pump, CETO III, will be constructed and deployed at the test site, which is expected in early 2009. REH has already announced pipeline developments for its CETO Wave Energy Device in Vancouver, Canada and Bermuda and is confident of developing commercial sites in Europe and North America, including Mexico, Caribbean and the Mediterranean. This development activity is being undertaken by CETO Development Company Limited, a Joint Venture Company with EDF Energies Nouvelle (EDF EN), under the terms of the Collaboration Agreement dated 11 January 2008. Mike Proffitt, Chief Executive Officer of REH, commented: "This is an important milestone for the commercialisation of our technology, as we can now instrument and record an aggregation of pumps working together. We plan to collect operating data for this array of three pumps, and to add several more pumps to the aggregation. This will pave the way for the construction of the CETO III commercial scale pump and its deployment in early 2009."
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