Infomom Connect, a telecommunications company that operates mainly in the Middle East, Africa and India, is moving towards the renewable energy industry... the company has deep relations in parts of the world that are ideal candidates for wave energy due to the wave climate and limited options for renewable energy (Photo Green Ecology)

According to the prestigious portal, www.puertocanarias.com, Seabased, a Swedish wave energy company, has partnered with Infocom Connect to provide wave energy for commercial projects in the Canary Islands. The society will start with a project for a 5MW pilot facility to provide energy to a desalination plant, but it could be expanded to meet multiple energy needs, from car recharge stations to network supply, Seabased said.

Óscar Sánchez, executive manager of SBH Hotels and Resorts, which is one of the largest private companies in the Canary Islands, is behind the desalination project with wave energy. The family of Sánchez also has a desalination plant with a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters.

"I am deeply interested in the future of the Canary Islands and I am excited about the potential of the wave energy in this area... we have a little less than 3,000 square miles of land mass and it makes a lot of sense to get our wave power... I see an enormous potential to use wave energy not only for specific projects, such as desalination, but also to provide energy to hotels and the network, which should be less expensive than fossil fuels..." said Oscar Sánchez.