🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸Jul 9, 2025

#Oregon has a massive new #waveEnergy testing facility. But who is going to use it?

> Oregon has a coastline dotted with ports, #electrical infrastructure and some of the best waves on the planet for generating #energy.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/09/all-science-no-fiction-oregon-wave-energy-testing-facility-pacwave/

#pacwave #renewableEnergy #wavePower #electricity #pnw #greenEnergy

Oregon has a massive new wave energy testing facility. But who is going to use it?

Oregon’s PacWave testing facility is now complete, but delays and cuts to federal funding for renewable energy development could impact its future.

OPB
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Feb 22, 2023
#PacWave is a #DOE-funded, grid-connected, full-scale test facility for #wave energy conversion technologies. It’s the first of its kind in the US, and construction is well under way, sited in water between 213-256ft it will be testbed of 20 #waveenergy converters
https://electrek.co/2023/02/22/the-us-first-grid-connected-wave-energy-test-facility/
The US's first grid-connected wave energy test facility is coming

A US Department of Energy-funded, grid-connected, full-scale test facility for wave energy conversion technologies is on its way.

Electrek