Wave Energy Technology- New Zealand is a Research & Development collaboration programme run by Industrial Research Limited, a Crown Research Institute, and Power Projects Limited, a privately owned Wellington-based company. The programme seeks to develop a wave energy device that maximises engineering efficiency through the novel use of direct-drive and adaptive response to changes in wave motion. The majority of the device is submerged but floating and is designed to operate in transitional / deepwater waves (20-100 m). It will seek to harness both kinetic and potential energy from passing waves.  

Please wait while animation loads...

WET-NZ Objectives

The objectives of the overall programme are to:

• Understand energy absorption by wave-device hydrodynamic modelling and wave energy analysis; 
• Develop and test scaled prototype versions of the device for future commercial deployments in either distributed applications of in utility scale shore-connected multiple-unit arrays; and
• Evaluate, adapt and commercialise WET-NZ technology.