The Pacific Northwest could soon become a hub of ocean energy technology. An Oregon State University project to set up a wave energy test site is now applying for the federal permits needed to move ...

Three ocean engineering firms in January completed testing of wave energy converters in a unique wind-wave test basin at the University of Maine, gauging how they will respond to severe offshore ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – The last major pieces of the contract to build the wave energy test facility PacWave South have been executed, paving the way for completion of the Oregon State University-led ...

The projects will include R&D into the potential of wave energy, as well as the testing of wave energy converter tech. DOE says the projects are to "make up the first round of open-water testing" at ...

NEWPORT -- After years of optimistic pronouncements, haggling with coastal residents and fishermen, and one project that landed in Davy Jones' locker, a new wave of Oregon's renewable energy ...

NEWPORT, Oregon, December 4, 2021 (ENS) – On the central Oregon coast, a first-of-its-kind $80 million wave energy testing facility is under construction. “This is the first time a lease has been ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KOIN) — The federal government awarded $25 million to eight groups for the testing of wave energy technologies at an Oregon State University facility near Newport. According to the ...

On a boat bobbing up and down in the waves off Newport, Burke Hales gave instructions to the ship captain. “So a little bit in and a tiny bit south,” Hales said, peering at the sonar screen. “We ...

Scotland's AWS Energy has reported results some 20% better than predicted for its Archimedes Waveswing, a prototype wave energy generator that's been undergoing ocean-based testing at the European ...

Engineers at the Sandia National Laboratories have figured how to test the large forces experienced by rocket avionics systems with a more environmentally friendly method. When a rocket goes into the ...