Administration of the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize Award Number: DE-EE0006738 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Water Power Program Date: 06/03/2015 Location(s): MI Office(s): Golden Field Office
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June 3, 2015
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Administration of the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize
Award Number: DE-EE0006738
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Water Power Program
Date: 06/03/2015
Location(s): MI
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Ricardo, Inc. for the administration of the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize Challenge in order to attract innovative ideas from developers new to the industry and next generation ideas from existing developers by offering a monetary prize purse and providing an opportunity for tank testing and evaluation of scaled WEC prototypes.
The project plan has been broken down into five (5) phases: Phase 1: Competition Planning Stage Phase 2: Competition Design Stage Phase 3: Competition Build Stage Phase 4: Competition Test and Evaluation Stage Phase 5: Post-Competition Publicity & Wrap-up