PMEC and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory are members of a consortium that was been awarded a $3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Governor Inslee Visits PMEC at University of Washington
KING 5: UW engineers test tidal energy turbines on Lake Washington
UW-APL: Persistent Environmental Monitoring Near an Operational Wave Energy Converter
UW-APL: Riding Waves to Generate Electricity
A YouTube video from the Applied Physics Lab at UW shows MiniWEC, a small Wave Energy Converter test platform under development by PMEC. With it, APL-UW researchers are making important contributions to the marine renewable energy community — scalable hydrodynamic WEC models and adaptive computer controls to maximize energy capture.