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Wave energy is coming to Oman: Omani logistics services provider Asyad Group has inked an agreement with Norway’s Havkraft to partner on developing wave energy stations to power Asyad’s operations, according to a statement. The agreement will allow Havkrafts’s nearshore wave power plants to help integrate renewable energy into Asyad’s operations to achieve net zero goals.
Oman’s catching the tide: The sultanate’s first wave energy pilot projects are expected to be launched within the next two years, Havkraft MENA Advisor and UK-based consultancy Translucidus Managing Director Matt Minshall said in an interview last October. Translucidus joined forces with Havkraft to establish Oman’s first wave energy power generation facilities earlier in the year in March 2023. Oman’s Transport Ministry and a consortium of companies inked agreements that same month to extend feasibility studies for tidal power at the Masirah sea bridge.
And wave power is catching on in the region: Moroccan start-up Advanced Third Age Renewable Energies Company (Atarec) has developed novel wave energy tech that generates electricity from sea waves at port breakwaters and other maritime infrastructures. Atarec deployed a 7 kW advanced demonstrator of its wave energy tech — dubbed Wave Beat — at the Tanger-Med Port last December.
