Institution of Civil Engineers

James Forrest Lecture

16 June 2009

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Professor Trevor Whittaker FREng FICE FRINA CEng

Trevor is Professor of Coastal Engineering at Queen's University
Belfast having been awarded a personal chair in 1993. He was
elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002.
He is non executive director and one of the founding members of
Aquamarine Power Ltd., a company formed to commercially
develop the Oyster^TM wave power system.

His most significant engineering achievement has been as project
manager of the team which designed, constructed and operated

Britain

's first wave power station located on the Isle of Islay. Prior
to decommissioning in 1998, the 75kw plant was one of only four
stations in the world supplying electricity to a national distribution
grid. The significance of this work was recognised when the team
was presented with The ESSO Energy award in 1994 by The Royal
                                                            Society. This work lead to the construction of the 500kW LIMPET
                                                            plant which was commissioned in 2001 and is now being commercially
                                                            developed.

                                                            His latest wave power device, Oyster^TM is scheduled to be deployed at
                                                            EMEC in Orkney in 2009 by Aquamarine Power Ltd. and provide a vital
                                                            step towards the global development of multi MW wave power farms.

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