Application Filed for First U.S. Commercial Wave Energy Project

RenewableEnergyAccess.com | Application Filed for First U.S. Commercial Wave Energy Project:
july 25, 2006
"Pennington, New Jersey [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Ocean Power Technologies (OPT), known for its PowerBuoy wave energy device, filed an application for construction permission to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a 50-megawatt (MW) wave power generation project in Oregon, the first request in the U.S. for such a power project on a utility-scale level. "