Prior to the formation of the company, or the commencement of any design work, a detailed study was carried out into the following fields:

• The possible sources of renewable power generation (wind, tidal, photovoltaic, bio-mass, geothermal and wave) to identify the efficiency and scope for deployment in each.
  
  
• Existing technology in the public domain relevant to each of the above renewable energy sources.
  
  
• Identification of areas throughout the world with high renewable energy yields.
  
  
• UK and international governmental policies with regard to the renewable
  energy market.

Based on this research, Ocean Navitas engineers decided that wave power was the world's most significant source of free renewable energy, and that the technology currently developed to harness it was inefficient and could be improved to reduce the costs involved.

Another more detailed study of existing wave energy conversion devices was carried out to ascertain what the problems encountered by the technologies were, how they could be overcome and what the simplest solution for converting wave power into grid compliant electrical energy would be.

It was decided that the simplest and most reliable method of creating energy was from rotational motion, and the engineers then drafted the idea for a bi-directional mechanical drive that would convert the linear motion of ocean waves and swells into singular direction rotational energy in as few steps as possible.

Over time this draft idea has been developed into what is now known as the 'Aegir Dynamo'.

Please use the navigation on the left to view some of the research and development information collected by Ocean Navitas over the last three years.