USA: MREC Wins Government Grant for Ocean Energy Technology Development

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $535,000 grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s New England Marine Renewable Energy Center, according to Cape Cod Times.

The aim of this grant is to develop ocean energy technology offshore Massachusetts in a 27-square-mile technology test zone. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth researchers also want to build a multi-use research platform in Nantucket sound, where the Cape Wind is planned.

This grant follows an earlier grant of $175,000 for testing the existing devices this summer.

“UMass Dartmouth and MREC are really leading the offshore energy revolution in the United States,” University of Massachusetts President Robert Caret said in a statement. “This grant demonstrates how UMass is developing new industries that will create sustainable jobs and energy.”

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Offshore WIND staff, April 24, 2012; Image: umassd