With nearly a decade of experience, WET-NZ is a leader in the design and development of wave energy converters

Wave Energy Technology- New Zealand is a Research & Development collaboration programme run by Callaghan Innovation (formerly Industrial Research Limited), a Crown agency, and Power Projects Limited, a privately owned Wellington-based company. The programme seeks to develop a wave energy device that maximises engineering efficiency through direct-drive and adaptive response to changes in wave motion.

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Achievements

• The first and only wave energy technology to be deployed in New Zealand
• Successful testing of four prototype devices at offshore sites. This has involved research deployments of up to 163 continuous days.
• Awarded the first resource consent in New Zealand for a wave energy development project. This was granted in April 2010 with a second test site consented a few months later in August
• The only NZ-designed marine energy technology to receive financial support from the NZ and US governments. In fact we are the only NZ developer to to receive international funding
• Two times winner of the Marine Energy Deployment Fund