AWATEA is currently engaged in several 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 & PowerOn
- International Collaboration
- we started to collaborate with the Australian Ocean Energy Group , the Wave Energy Research Centre (Albany, WA), the European based PLOCAN & EMEC
- Marine Energy Prize – 2021
- we are working on an innovation prize for marine energy
- Blue Innovation Centre (BIC)
- combine marine energy with Northport’s Vision for Growth and develop an HQ for marine energy in Northland, with future subsidiaries around NZ e.g. Kaipara Harbour, Wellington, Tory Channel, Foveaux Strait
- ‘Just Transition’ in Northland
- Phasing out fossil fuel (sunset industry) and ramping up renewables (sunrise industry) and working on a just energy transition (JT) is a project started in Tai Tokerau in December 2020. Here are JT opportunities and mapped assets.
- Marine Energy/ Climate Change Degree
- we have initiated first dialogue between Universities, Crown Research Institutes and overseas Marine Energy experts on how to offer a right skilling into the growing renewable/marine energy sector