Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) Captures $66.5M Grant to Develop Wave Power
QualityStocks (November 9th, 2009) Writes:
Ocean Power Technologies (Australasia) Pty Ltd (OPTA), a subsidiary of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., announced on Friday, November 6, the award of a grant from the Federal Government of Australia (FGA).
This grant to OPTA, in partnership with Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd (Leighton), is for $66.46M to build a wave power project off the Australian coastline near Victoria, expected to generate power in the 19-megawatt (MW) range.
This project is the sole wave power-based item among four renewable energy projects awarded funding by the FGA. OPTA and Leighton have formed a special-purpose company, Victorian Wave Partners Pty Ltd, via a collaboration agreement signed in late 2008, to implement wave power-based systems off Australia’s Southeastern coastal areas.
OPTT is an industry leading innovator in wave power architectures; systems which harness the tidal forces of bodies of water to generate electricity. With direct access to a $150B power generation equipment market via
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