The US Department of Energy has selected 12 organisations to receive a combined $25m funding to support wave and tidal energy research and development.
Eight of the developers to receive grants from the DoE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Technologies Office will further early stage device designs.
Those organisations consist of Atargis Energy, Columbia Power Technologies, Florida Atlantic University, Littoral Power Systems, North Carolina State University, Oscilla Power, Texas A&M University and University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Three grants were awarded to AWS Ocean Energy, CalWave Power Technologies and Portland State University to work on control systems and power take-off design integration and testing.
California strategic communications outfit Kearns and West, meanwhile, will develop a marine energy environmental permitting toolkit.
“Advancing next-generation marine energy will help the US ensure a secure, reliable, and enduring supply of American energy,” said Under Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes.
“These early-stage research and development projects are key to the development of water power as part of DoE’s ‘all-of-the-above’ energy strategy.”