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Seabased scalable wave power parks for clean marine energy
- Published 23 March 2023; updated 21 September 2026; estimated reading time 2 minutes. Availability is marked “Soon available” with the explanation that concrete plans exist to make it commercially available in the near future; category Energy / Wave energy.
- Seabased designs turnkey utility-scale wave-power parks. Surface buoys move with waves and drive magnets in seabed-anchored linear generators; a subsea converter changes the output into grid-ready electricity. The modular layout lets a customer adjust the number of buoys and generators and expand a project in stages.
- The company offers feasibility studies, permitting, engineering, design, construction, installation and grid connection. The article says installation takes a few days, with little cleaning and limited maintenance because the system has few moving parts. These are company descriptions.
- The page presents wave power as a steadier renewable source that could complement variable wind and solar, including for coastal cities, islands and remote areas now using diesel. It says parks use no toxic chemicals or blades, are nearly invisible from shore, require little land for grid connections and might function as artificial reefs where fishing is excluded; biodiversity benefits are described as potential.
- Status caveat: the page still marks the solution “Soon available” and says the company was industrialising it. It also says certification for mass production was due in summer 2021, a date long past; the page provides no confirmation that certification or mass production was completed. Claims about performance at commercial scale should therefore be treated as unconfirmed here.
- Linked to SDGs 7 (Affordable and clean energy) and 14 (Life below water).
- Contact: Laurent Albert, CEO, laurent@seabased.com. Company: SEABASED NORWAY AS, v/Erik Ritch-Reinfjord, c/o BDO AS, Leirvollen 21A, 3736 Skien, Norway; seabased.com. A phone-number reveal control is present.