Each berth will have a dedicated transmission cable and the site will be generally pre-permitted for a variety of WEC technologies. The test facility will be able to accommodate up to twenty wave energy converters (WEC)-devices that convert wave energy into electricity-in four separate test berths simultaneously. The Energy Department announced the selection of the OSU-led team to develop the facility in December 2016 and initial operation and testing is expected by 2025. The site is currently being developed off the coast of Newport, Oregon, by faculty and staff in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) at Oregon State University (OSU). PacWave (formerly known as the Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site) is an Energy Department-funded, grid-connected, full-scale test facility for wave energy conversion technologies-the first of its kind in the United States.
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