Ocean power tech seals deal with US Navy

The U.S. military is living up to its promise of leading the country in green energy adoption with the Navy’s awarding of a $3 million contract to marine power startup Ocean Power Technologies (OPT). The contract is for ocean testing of an advanced version of the company’s autonomous PowerBuoy that converts the kinetic energy of oceanic waves into electricity, and is part of the Navy’s Deep Water Active Detection Systems (DWADS) program, which uses sophisticated oceanic data-gathering and communications systems.

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