The Water Power Program hosted a webinar on Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 2:00 PM EST to gather public input regarding possible approaches to structuring a prize competition for wave energy converters (WEC).
The program is considering sponsoring a WEC Prize, to be administered by a third party that may have involvement in defining, developing, and advertising the competitive challenge, as well as involvement in the awarding of any prizes.
The webinar provided the opportunity for interested parties to weigh in on the on both the structure of a potential prize competition as well as the technical criteria that may be considered in the evaluation of such a competition.
The program is accepting written responses to the RFI until 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Written responses should adhere to the following guidelines:
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Press release, July 22, 2013; Image: energy