IRELAND’S $2.5MIL BACKS WAVE ENERGY

SEAI grants €1.8m in funding for ESB’s West Wave wave energy project

23 April 2014 (Silicon Republic)

“The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has granted €1.8m in funding for feasibility studies for five wave energy projects…[T]he goal will be to deploy five wave energy devices off the coast of County Clare by 2018…[The Westwave project] represents one of the most significant efforts worldwide to establish a pre-commercial array of wave energy converters…The full environmental impact assessment for the site is expected to be carried out in 2014 and 2015…to advance the project and eventually connect power generated from the wave energy converters to the existing electricity network…According to the SEAI, one-fifth of Ireland’s energy now comes from renewable sources…” click here for more

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