ARENA dips into wave energy

ARENA CEO,
Ivor Frischknecht.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is providing $181,000 funding to support Bombora Wave Power (Bombora) to complete a detailed cost of energy study for its Wave Energy Convertor (WEC).

Bombora’s WEC design uses a responsive rolling membrane fitted to a long concrete arm resting on the sea floor. The membrane pressurises air, which is passed through a turbine to generate electricity.

ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said harnessing energy from the ocean required determination, ingenuity and time.

Read the ARENA release - “New study to uncover wave energy costs.”

ARENA excited about WA wave power

Renewable energy is clearly critical to Australia finding its way through the climate change dilemma.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today (February 18) joined Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane to officially switch on the Carnegie Perth Wave Energy Project’s onshore power station.

A full report on this first is on the ARENA website in a story headed: “Australia’s first renewable energy from a wave power array”.

ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said the occasion marked an important point in the history of wave energy and is the culmination close to a decade of work.