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Agulhas Current HAE
The Agulhas Current HAE project was a plan to harness the energy of the Agulhas Current off the east coast of eThekwini Municipality, South Africa, to generate electricity using HAE's Oceanus turbine. The eThekwini municipality has a population of approximately 3.5 million and its major city is Durban; the municipality confirmed its ability to purchase electricity directly from independent power producers such as HAE, provided that it complies with applicable legislative and municipal procurement procedures. This project was intended as a demonstration of HAE's technology, with the potential to deploy additional units at a later time.
Additional Information
Project Status
Is the project actively being planned or is deployed in the water (active)? Or was the project canceled or completed (inactive)?
Inactive
Project Life Cycle
Project Progress through life cycle:
- Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment
- Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active
- Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water
- Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations
- Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water
Canceled
Max Rated Power Capacity
The maximum amount of electricity that can be produced by project, based on available resources and device nameplate capacity.
1 MW
Project Duration
2012 - 2013
Energy Resource
- Ocean Current
Project Scale
Full-scale
Number of Devices
1
Grid Connectivity
Grid Connected
Waterbody
Agulhas Current, eThekwini Municipality
Site Characteristics
Geographic characterization for the project location:
- Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land
- Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary
- Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water
- Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land
- River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water
Coastal
Country
South Africa
This Project has the following MRE Devices
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Citation Formats
“Agulhas Current HAE.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Agulhas_Current_HAE. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.
Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects. <year>. "Agulhas Current HAE." Accessed <monthRoman> <day>, <year>. https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Agulhas_Current_HAE.
Last modified: 8 April 2025