US funding flows into Ocean Power Technologies

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Department of Energy awards $1.5m grant to support project designed to scale up OPT's PowerBuoy technology

The US government has today stepped up its support for wave energy technologies with the award of a $1.5m (£0.97m) grant to marine energy specialist Ocean Power Technologies (OPT). The Department of...

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