Marine energy research center gets $1M in funding - Boston Business Journal:

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The funding will help a consortium of researcherws working at the located withinthe — continuw developing technologies to harnes s power from offshore wind, waves and tidal The researchers come from a number of local universities and including UMass, , the , the and the . As Presidentg Barack Obama’s administration places an increased focusx on developing and implementing renewable and alternativsenergy resources, the relatively obscure worlde of marine energy is receiving significant “Three years ago the amount of DOE moneg going to hydrokinetic research was zero.
This year there’sd $40 million,” said John Miller, director of the Marin RenewableEnergy Center. “There’s a lot more moneu going into alternative energy, but this is certainl one of the area s getting its fair We have the brainpower and now we do havethe