The Searaser has been designed to address cost and variable output issue related to the deployment of renewable energy on a scale to meet UK’s future electricity needs.
The technology is the brainchild of UK engineer Alvin Smith.
Smith said: "We’ve just completed wave tank testing at Plymouth University to validate the extensive computer modelling we’ve been undertaking."
"We’ve put Searaser through the most extreme testing regime at Plymouth’s CoastLAB and it’s passed every challenge."
Searaser can use the motion of the ocean swell in order to pump high pressure seawater ashore, where it will be used to make electricity.
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said: "Our vision is for Britain’s electricity needs to be met entirely from our big three renewable energy sources – the Wind, the Sun and the Sea.
"Out of these three energy sources, generating electricity from the sea is by far the most difficult due to the hostile ocean environment – it’s also the least advanced of the three technologies but it has enormous potential.
"We believe these Seamills have the potential to produce a significant amount of the electricity that Britain needs, from a clean indigenous source and in a more controllable manner than currently possible."
A full scale prototype of Searaser is expected to be developed in next 12 months and will commence producing electricity from the first commercial arrays of Seamills within a few years.
