The test site, which will be located off the coast of Newport, Oregon, is currently slated to begin operations in the summer of 2020.
The university's Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center is developing the site to provide wave energy converter developers an economical way of doing pre-market testing.
Once operational, the site will accommodate up to 20 wave energy converters in four test berths at one time, while supplying up to 20 MW of electricity to the grid, the university said.
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