Water Corp is looking to add marine energy to its portfolio supplying energy to its desalination plant, having already signed offtake agreements with the Greenough River solar PV project and the Mumbida wind farm – both owned by local utility Verve Energy.

Carnegie is developing a 2MW pilot project in WA, which it hopes will be the first grid-connected demonstration of its Ceto technology – an array of submerged buoys that pump high-pressure water to onshore hydroelectric turbines.

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