The $14 million BioPower demonstration project, to be located at Port Fairy in Victoria’s southwest, involves a 250 kW single wave energy unit which will be anchored to the sea floor and connected to the state’s electricity grid.
The project funding was awarded under the Victorian Government’s Energy Technology Innovation Strategy.
Project partners include AGL Energy, Bluescope Steel, Lend Lease, Swinburne University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney.
The Victorian Government said that the project is an example of ‘biomimicry’, in which biological traits are utilised in engineered systems. The unit will be anchored to the sea floor 30 metres underwater and about 800 metres from shore.
