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Australian-owned and developed in launching Western Australia’s wave energy project

WA to launch world-first wave energy project, WA Today, Pamela Mirghani May 1, 2012 –  The first wave energy project in the Southern Hemisphere is set to commence operation in Western Australia next year, with the federal government announcing almost $10 million in funding today.

WA-based energy company Carnegie will begin construction of
Australia’s first commercial scale grid-connected wave project next
year, which will be located on and around Garden Island, with power
delivered by the end of 2013.

Energy Minister Craig Ferguson today announced the federal government
would contribute $9.9 million as part of the Emerging Renewables
program, with the state government contributing $5.5 million under the
Low Emissions Energy Development program……

As well as being the first such project in the Southern Hemisphere,
the project also uses Australian-owned and developed CETO technology,
which is the only of its kind in the world.

Developed in WA over the last 10 years at a cost of $60 million, CETO
differs to other wave energy technology by operating out of sight and
underwater, where it is anchored to the ocean floor and generates
electricity onshore, rather than offshore.

The CETO units move with motion of passing waves, driving pumps which
deliver pressurised water to shore via a pipeline, which in turn
drives hydroelectric turbines.  http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-to-launch-worldfirst-wave-energy-project-20120501-1xwk7.html#ixzz1tkKD6oGU

May 2, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | energy, Western Australia