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.
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