AWATEA is currently engaged in several Ocean Innovation projects.
- Supporting local deployment projects
- AzuraWave – a wave energy device capable to turn wave into water & electricity
- Aotea Buoy – a smart wave energy device build by the University of Auckland
- Smart polymer for energy harvesting, a project by the Auckland Bioengineering Institute
- International Collaboration
- AWATEA started to collaborate with the Australian Ocean Energy Group , the Wave Energy Research Centre (Albany, WA), the European based PLOCAN & EMEC
- AWATEA plans to investigate ocean based energy storage solutions like
- Malta’s offshore energy storage/ FLASC (Yale webinar)
- Holland’s Ocean Grazer
- Marine Energy Prize – 2024
- AWATEA is working on an innovation prize for Ocean Energy
- Blue Innovation Centre (BIC)
- AWATEA aims to combine Ocean Energy innovation with Northport’s Vision for Growth. A report with Ara Ake is planned for Q3Y24.
- Marine Energy/ Climate Change Degree
- AWATEA has initiated a dialogue between Universities, Crown Research Institutes and overseas Ocean Energy experts on how to offer a right skilling into the growing renewable/ocean energy sector