Desalination plant to be powered by waves in Australia

09/02/2013 - 00:00


By Giles Parkinson -

Perth-based Carnegie Wave Energy says it will become the first company in the world to build a wave-powered desalination plant, and the first to have a wave energy project that delivers both electrons and fresh water.

The announcement comes after Carnegie signed a “co-operation agreement with the WA-based Water Corporation that will support a pilot desalination project to be built alongside the Perth Wave energy demonstration project that is now being built near the Garden Island naval base near Perth.

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