Florida has spent $13.75 million on the Center for Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), seeing Florida as a natural to lead in generating energy from the sea.
A report filed by floridatrend.com indicated: Since 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued 137 preliminary permits for entities hoping for power from sources as diverse as the Ohio River and Oregon waves, according to Celeste Miller, a commission spokeswoman. It added that none has been issued for Florida, though two of 68 pending applications are for Florida — from a Maine company, Ocean Renewable Power, that wants to test a turbine at the envisioned FAU test seabed. The permits give the holders the right to study a site for three years.
As per the information available, FAU has a monitoring system ready to deploy — the first step toward an actual turbine and toward creating an ocean test bed where private companies can test turbines — but is awaiting approval from the agencies writing the rules in the new field.
FAU's Center for Ocean Energy Technology is a synergistic partnership among academia, industry and government laboratories combining expertise in ocean engineering and science, fabrication and testing, utilizing the South Florida Testing Facility range to foster the research, design, development, implementation, testing, and commercialiSation of cutting-edge ocean energy technologies. The Center for Ocean Energy Technology is working with other universities and private-sector players such as FPL and Lockheed Martin, hoping for approval to put the monitoring system in the water soon.
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