Royal inauguration of Waves4Power's wave power system
Together with a 10-year old from the area, His Majesty King Harald of Norway attended the official inauguration of Waves4Power’s wave power system on Thursday, 21 September.
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It was a festive occasion in Fosnavåg on the Norwegian west coast when His Majesty King Harald opened the wave power system together with Arthur Pettersson-Kieffer, the winner of the drawing contest, the subject of which was the future wave power system. Arthur from Ulsteinvik won the contest in competition with pupils from 12 other Norwegian schools.
More than 2,000 people were present at the festivities, which marked the high point of the day when the focus was on wave power and Waves4Power.
During his visit, His Majesty King Harald met Waves4Power’s management and many of their partners as well as visiting Wave4Power’s buoy at the Runde, the island bird sanctuary. The buoy has been connected to the Norwegian electricity grid since 2 June this year. The king was taken out to the buoy on the RS Idar Ulstein, the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society newest boat. His Majesty, who is the society’s patron, was given information about the project by Jan Melsom and Bengt Mårlind from Waves4Power.
“His Majesty was both interested and updated. He asked a lot of good questions. Showing his Majesty our wave power system was a great honour”, said Jan Melsom, Waves4Power’s Norwegian representative.
His Majesty was also given presentations of Waves4Power and several of its partners during a conference in the concert hall at Thon Hotel, Fosnavåg. The plans for the Next Generation buoy were also presented during the conference.
Also present were many of the Norwegian environmental organisations and a large number of reporters.
The day ended with a banquet for His Majesty King Harald and the more 100 guests, consisting of representatives from many different countries including Japan, USA, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Norway and Sweden.
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For further information, please contact:
Ulf Lindelöf
CEO & Managing Dirctor
Waves4Power
+46 72 210 44 20
ulf.lindelof@waves4power.com
Jonas Kamf
Marketing Manager
Waves4Power
+46 70 664 36 25
jonas.kamf@waves4power.com
Birgitta Plyhm
PR
Plyhm Kommunikation
+46 70 777 12 90
birgitta@plyhm.se
Waves4Power is a Swedish company based in Gothenburg, which develops and sells fossil-free energy systems based on wave power. Waves4Power focuses on sustainability, serviceability and profitable power generation. The core of the W4P wave power system is a power- generating buoy with elastic anchors. The company began developing the latest generation of wave power systems after the prototype of the WaveEL buoy was launched outside Vinga in 2010. Today, W4P works with a network of commercial industrial partners and in close cooperation with, among others, Chalmers University of Technology. www.waves4power.com
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