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Brough Head
In March 2010 BHWFL was granted an exclusive Agreement for Lease (AfL) on an area of seabed off the Mainland Orkney coast stretching from Costa Head in the north to Neban Point in the south-west (Figure 1.1). This AfL was granted through The Crown Estate (TCE) Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters (PFOW) leasing round for commercial wave and tidal energy projects. This was the world’s first seabed leasing round and was designed to enable marine energy developers to investigate the potential for the installation of wave and tidal energy devices around the UK’s coastline.
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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.
200 MW
Project Duration
2009 - 2017
Energy Resource
- Wave
Project Scale
Full-scale
Number of Devices
200
Waterbody
Orkney Coast
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
United Kingdom
Last Modified
6 June 2025
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“Brough Head.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Brough_Head. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.
Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects. <year>. "Brough Head." Accessed <monthRoman> <day>, <year>. https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Brough_Head.
