Israeli company SDE Energy has been granted approval by the Energy Ministry to establish a 100 MW sea wave power plant on the Kenyan coastline. The erection of the power plant will be carried out in co-operation with local company Sea Wave Gen. The 100 MW power plant will be installed along the shores of Kenya at a production cost of $0.02 per 1 kW while the produced energy will be bought by KPLC with a tariff of $0.80per 1 kW.

Sea wave energy production is an  innovative technology patented by SDE, which undertakes planning, building and marketing of plants producing power from waves, the method consists of using sea wave motion to generate hydraulic pressure which is transformed into electricity. The installation is a series of buoys which are placed on a breakwater  or some other sea based structure which create a vertical motion according to the frequency of the sea waves. The buoys movement presses on a  hydraulic liquid which is regulated by systems that convert the energy into circular systems. These systems operate an electric generator  and the process culminates in electricity production. The model has been designed and approved by experienced engineers.

SDE Energy says the price of producing 1MW operated by SDE amounts to $650,000 compared to $1.5 million for coal, $900,000 for gas, $3 million for solar and wind power $1.5 million.

SDE claim that their design system has the ability to supply 500 times more power than current sea wave energy consumption. So far SDE has built several sea power plants. A new power plant at Jaffa Port is proving itself an improved version of earlier models. It can produce 60 KWh with only one buoy.  It is fully automatic and only 10 per cent of the whole system is in the water.