Council to spend £150k to dispose of £1 wave energy conversion device
Gareth Waterson, the council's director of enterprise, told BBC Radio Orkney: "Now is the time to get it decommissioned.
"We've spent nearly as much as the £45,000 that we got in maintaining it. It has been a bit of an albatross." The council will tender for its removal to a location where it can be processed for scrap, with the value recouped by the council.The device was developed by the now defunct Pelamis Wave Power company, which went into administration in 2014. It was originally valued at £2m.Mr Waterson added: "It was a fairly iconic device, people will probably remember seeing it on the telly.
"It was referred to as the sea snake, the big yellow thing that looked like a fairground ride out at sea." The council planned to preserve it as an artefact to mark ocean energy research and development in Orkney.Related Topics
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