{"id":138586,"date":"2021-07-14T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=138586"},"modified":"2021-07-14T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:24:37","slug":"abd-den-dalga-enerjisi-teknolojisi-projelerine-27-milyon-dolarlik-fon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/abd-den-dalga-enerjisi-teknolojisi-projelerine-27-milyon-dolarlik-fon\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Announces Millions in Funding for Projects Focused on Wave Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that as much as $27 million in federal funding will be provided for research and development projects focused on wave energy. In the latest attempt to encourage innovation within a sector that has a very small footprint compared to other types of renewable energy, the DOE said Tuesday the funding would aim to \u201cadvance wave energy technologies toward commercial viability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Selected projects will undertake their research at the PacWave South facility,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/28\/major-project-in-oregon-could-help-transform-prospects-of-wave-energy.html\">which is located off the coast of Oregon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Construction of PacWave South<\/strong> \u2014 which has received grants from the<strong> DOE<\/strong> and <strong>the State of Oregon<\/strong>, among others \u2014 began last month and it\u2019s hoped the site will be operational <strong>in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breaking things down, the funding will be divided into three separate pots: As much as <strong>$15 million<\/strong> will be set aside for the testing of wave energy convertor tech; up to <strong>$7 million<\/strong> will go to wave energy research and development; and a maximum of<strong> $5 million<\/strong> will be assigned to the advancement of wave energy converter designs for <strong>PacWave<\/strong>. Full applications for the funding are due in October, the DOE said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued alongside the <strong>DOE\u2019s announcement<\/strong>, <em>U.S. Energy Secretary<\/em> Jennifer M. Granholm said: \u201cWith wave energy, we have the opportunity to add <strong>more renewable power<\/strong> to the grid and deploy more sustainable energy to hard to reach communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the money will be welcomed in some quarters, preliminary figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that a lot work will be needed if the country is to move away from fossil fuels in any significant way.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EIA, <strong>natural gas<\/strong> and <strong>coal\u2019s shares<\/strong> of <strong>utility-scale electricity generation<\/strong> in 2020 were <strong>40.3%<\/strong> and<strong> 19.3%<\/strong>, respectively. By contrast, the total share for<strong> renewable sources<\/strong> came to <strong>19.8%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development of <strong>wave energy technologies<\/strong> is not exclusive to the <strong>United States. Europe<\/strong>, for instance, is also home to a<strong> fledgling sector,<\/strong> with a number of companies now working on a<strong> wide variety<\/strong> of systems.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/07\/us-announces-millions-in-funding-for-projects-focused-on-wave-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cnbc<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that as much as $27 million in federal funding will be provided for research and development projects focused on wave energy. In the latest attempt to encourage innovation within a sector that has a very small footprint compared to other types of renewable energy, the DOE said Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53],"tags":[93447,93443,93445,93446,66267,52259,93444,93452,93448,93450,93451,93449],"views":143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138590,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586\/revisions\/138590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}