U.S. Department of Energy’s Wave Energy Prize to Include 92 Teams

Participants Embark Upon Competition for Prize Purse of More Than $2 Million​

WASHINGTON (July 6, 2015) – Wave energy enthusiasts from industry and academia have formed 92 teams to move toward the first milestone of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wave Energy Prize. This design-build-test competition is encouraging the development of game-changing wave energy conversion (WEC) devices that will achieve the DOE’s goal of doubling energy capture, thus reducing the cost of wave energy and making it more competitive with traditional energy solutions.

These official registered teams will now begin working to double the energy captured from ocean waves and win a prize purse totaling more than $2 million.

Background information on the official registered teams can be found on the Wave Energy Prize website. Official registered teams are:

• 40South Energy (Palo Alto, Calif.)
• AdapWave (Baltimore, Md.)
• Advanced Ocean Energy @ Virginia Tech (Hampton Roads, Va.)
• AIMMER Marine Energy (Oakland, Calif.)
• Alternative Energy Engineering Associates (Port Orchard, Wash.)
• Aqua-Shift (Encinitas, Calif).
• AquaHarmonics (Oakland, Calif.)
• ATA Engineering (San Diego, Calif.)
• Atargis Energy Corporation (Pueblo, Colo.)
• Atlantic Wavepower Partnership (Newport, R.I.)
• Atlas Ocean Systems (Houston, Texas)
• AWECS Attenuator (Glen Burnie, Md.)
• Brimes Energy (Holbrook, N.Y.)
• Buoyant Energy (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Cal Poly – Protean Wave Energy, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
• CalWave (Berkeley, Calif.)
• Centipod (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
• Crestwing (Denmark)
• Earth By Design (Bend, Ore.)
• eBuoy (Ayer, Mass.)
• Energystics (Stony Brook, N.Y.)
• Enorasy Labs (Bedford, Mass.)
• EnSea, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.)
• ESI – Perpetuwave (Doral, Fla.)
• Etymol Ocean Power (Winter Springs, Fla.)
• Fetzer Wave (Palm Harbor, Fla.)
• Float Inc. – BergerABAM (San Diego, Calif.)
• GlobalOne Sciences (Dayton, Ohio)
• Greenfield Technologies LLC (Addison, Ala.)
• GyroGenTM (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
• Healy’s Wave Energy Converter (Hollis, N.H.)
• Hui Nalu (Honolulu, Hawaii)
• Hydrokinetic Energy Solutions (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
• Iowec (Cambridge, Mass.)
• James F. Marino (San Diego, Calif.)
• Jetty Joule (Colusa, Calif.)
• KNSwing (Denmark)
• Kozoriz-Franklin California Maglev, Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.)
• KymoGen (Bristol, Conn.)
• Leviathan Energy Waves (Stony Brook, N.Y.)
• M3 Wave (Salem, Ore.)
• MARUTHI POWER (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Mighty Waves Energy Team (Vienna, Va.)
• Mocean Energy (Annapolis, Md.)
• Neptune Wave Power, LLC (Dallas, Texas)
• Next Gen (Sacramento, Calif.)
• NM-AGGIE Waves (Las Cruces, N.M.)
• Ocean Energy USA (Sacramento, Calif.)
• Ocean Kinetics (Homer, Alaska)
• Ocean Lab (Glendale, Calif.)
• Ocean Motion International (Denver, Colo.)
• Oscilla Power (Seattle, Wash.)
• Ovsiankin Energy Group (Chicago, Ill.)
• Poseidon’s Kite (Gambrills, Md.)
• Principle Power (Berkeley, Calif.)
• Protean Wave Technology Inc. (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• ReWEB Technology (Narragansett, R.I.)
• Rohan Patel (Bensalem, Pa.)
• Royal Wave (Paonia, Colo.)
• RPPC (Denver, Colo.)
• RTI-MIT Wave Power (York, Maine)
• Rutgers Wave Power (Piscataway, N.J.)
• SAi Orbit Wave Power (Daphne, Ala.)
• Sea Potential (Bristol, R.I.)
• SeaFoil (Redwood City, Calif.)
• SeaGreen Technologies (Annapolis, Md.)
• SeaStar Ocean (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• SEWEC (Redwood City, Calif.)
• Spindrift Energy (Simi Valley, Calif.)
• Super Watt Wave Catcher Barge Team (Houston, Texas)
• TAMU-OSSL (College Station, Texas)
• Team FLAPPER (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)
• Team Treadwater (Houston, Texas)
• Thrustcycle Enterprises (Wilsonville, Ore.)
• Undulational Harvester (Albany, Calif.)
• Uniturbine Corporation (Lewes, Del.)
• Vortex (Lenox, Mass.)
• Wave Energy at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Va.)
• Wave Energy Conversion Corporation of America (WECCA) (North Bethesda, Md.)
• Wave Forest Power (Benton, Ky.)
• Wave Water Works (Northville, Mich.)
• Wave Wheel (Gray, Maine)
• Waveberg Development (San Diego, Calif.)
• WaveFlex 1 (Baltimore, Md.)
• WaveFlex 2 (Baltimore, Md.)
• WaveFlo (Newburyport, Mass.)
• Waves2Energy (Union, N.J.)
• Waveswing America (Sacramento, Calif.)
• Wavewatts (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
• Wavy Turbine (La Jolla, Calif.)
• Wizards of Energy (Dania Beach, Fla.)
• Worldwide Windfinder (Dallas, Texas)

“We’re extremely pleased with both the quantity of teams and the diversity of participants reflecting broad expertise from so many established companies in the ocean energy space, universities, and newcomers to the industry,” said Julie Zona, Wave Energy Prize Administrator. “The composition of the participating teams truly demonstrates one of the benefits of a prize challenge, which is to encourage the inclusion of new perspectives. We’re very hopeful that the diverse backgrounds of these teams will help lead to the Prize’s goal of achieving game-changing performance enhancements to wave energy technologies.”

Registration for the Wave Energy Prize opened on April 27 and closed on June 30. Since registering, the teams have begun work on the first requirement for the Prize, a technical submission describing their concepts, due July 15, which will be reviewed by a panel of expert judges. Based on their technical submissions, up to 20 of the top teams will be named qualified teams in an announcement scheduled for mid-August. Qualified teams will build a 1/50thscale model and will participate in small-scale tank testing for validation of their design concepts. Finalist teams, which will be announced in March 2016, will have the opportunity to receive seed money to build 1/20th scale WEC prototypes that will undergo tank testing at the nation’s most advanced wave-making facility, the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Maneuvering and Seakeeping (MASK) Basin at Carderock, Md., beginning in the summer of 2016.

To follow the progress of the Wave Energy Prize or for more information, go to waveenergyprize.org.

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