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Rick
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Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) to develop a 19MW wave energy generation system off the southern coast of Australia.
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Its 45 PowerBuoys (demonstrated in the video below) and five Undersea Substation Pods are expected to fulfill the energy needs of around 10,000 homes.
Funding for the project, which is to be located off the coast of Portland, Victoria, also includes a previously announced grant of AUD$66.5million (approx. £42m) from the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.
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