Currently Middles doesn’t seem to be threatened by plans which desire to establish an experimental station for gaining wave-energy at the Roshage-pier.

The local newspaper Thisted Dagblad has had some articles about plans to create an experimental station for gaining wave-energy at the Roshage-pier. The articles named two companies, Wave Dragon and Wave Star Energy.

Apparently Wave Dragon has plans with Hanstholm, but want to build the experimental station 3 km offshore, and doing that they will not threaten Middles.

Wave Star Energy has different plans. They want to build the experimental station close to shore. This is the reason that we’ve contacted this company.

They confirm that they’re planning to place a test-section of a wave-machine on top of the westside of the Roshage-pier.

The test-section contains a lattice structure being 6 m high, 5 m wide and 12 m long, on top will be constructed two 10 m long arms with 5 m floats

The lattice structure should be bolted on the pier and the two arms with the floats pointing out west. The floats work in the water along side the pier with waves up to 4 m. The arms and floats can be lifted during a storm. The test-section is meant to be a testing environment for the arms and floats, to measure the ballasting at the floats.

It seems like this construction doesn’t do any harm for the Middles area. But this organization will follow the developments in this project closely.

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