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 Manager

Aquamarine Power

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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:<ul> <li>Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment</li> <li>Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active</li> <li>Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water</li> <li>Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations</li> <li>Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water</li></ul>

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:<ul> <li>Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land</li> <li>Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary</li> <li>Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water</li> <li>Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land</li> <li>River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water</li></ul>

Coastal

Country

United Kingdom

Last Modified

6 June 2025

This Project has the following MRE Devices

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