Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, today visited Pelamis Wave Power to see the final assembly of the P2, our next generation of wave energy converter. He was accompanied on his visit by local MP, Mark Lazarowicz and by Dave Rogers, E.ON UK's Regional Director for Climate & Renewables and Adrian Chatterton, head of construction for E.ON UK.   

Ed Miliband was invited to climb inside the new Pelamis to see the fully assembled joint and power take-off system first hand. He later said “I am delighted to have had the opportunity to see the wave energy industry in action here today. I have been extremely impressed both by the Pelamis technology itself, and by the unique and visionary project that that Pelamis Wave Power and E.ON are delivering. The project is pulling the technology and sector forward, out of a long research and development phase and over the commercial Rubicon. It is exactly the type of project that our Marine Renewables Proving Fund was designed to support, it will lay a solid foundation for the Government’s commercial aspirations for the sector moving forward.”

Top photograph; Mark Lazarowicz MP, Max Carcas PWP, Ed Miliband MP, Adrian Chatterton E.ON, Richard Yemm PWP and Ed Maycock PWP, tour PWP’s assembly facilities in Leith.

Bottom photograph ; Ed Miliband climbs onto the P2 machine, photographed with Keith Lawson, senior operations engineer at PWP.