Awarded
under
the
European
Commission’s
Seventh
Framework
Programme,
the
grant
will
support
development
of
WavePort,
a
project
aiming
to
perfect
a
PowerBuoy
with
“wave
prediction
capability”
and
a
wave-by-wave
tuning
system.
The
consortium,
which
is
made
up
of
OPT
,
Portugal’s
Wave
Energy
Centre,
Norway’s
Fugro
Oceanor,
Spanish
fabrication
yard
DeGima,
and
the
UK’s
University
of
Exeter
and
Intelligent
Systems
Research
Institute.
It
is
expected
the
PowerBuoy
will
be
deployed
off
Santoña
in
Spain,
where
OPT
has
been
working
on
a
ten-device
wave
energy
testing
programme
under
a
deal
with
Spanish
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