Ocean Power Technologies Australasia
Ocean Power Technologies Australasia Pty Ltd is an Australian company, a subsidiary of Ocean Power Technologies Inc of the United States, a renewable energy company, providing power generation devices, services and related equipment for the extraction of energy from ocean waves.
In 2009 OPTA was part of Victorian Wave Partners formed to develop a 19 megawatt wave power project near Portland, Victoria connected to the grid. The project was to receive an AU$66.46 million grant from the Australia federal government. By 2014, the consortium had abandoned the project, saying it was not commercially viable. OPT had given up on plans to develop the project, which was to cost $232 million for which the Australian government had offered $66.5 million in funding support.2012
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