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More info on this at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Energy_Converter .
The company was bought by E.ON and the project was killed. At that time, there were working 450 Kilowatt prototypes (see the video). 450 Kilowatt is a power volume that took wind power plants over three decades (about from 1970 to 2000) to achieve.
The technology was then apparently copied by a Chinese company.
That’s slightly over 2 years, and it had to be repeatedly taken away for servicing during that time. That’s not exactly a roaring success.
It is technology in development. Off-shore wind power also had to solve a lot of difficulties but it is working now.
Off-shore wind has no moving parts in the ocean.