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Lancaster University’s Renewable Energy Group has been awarded over £0.75m to help develop wave-power generators.

Lancaster University’s Renewable Energy Group (LUREG), part of the Department of Engineering, has been awarded over £0.75m to help develop wave-power generators.

The funding comes in two separate grants awarded to George Aggidis, director of LUREG, from ESPRC and The Joule Centre.

The Joule Centre - a partnership of North West Universities and key players in the energy industry - has allocated a £0.25m for research led by Aggidis and his partners at the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) on a new wave energy converter called WRASPA.

The WRASPA concept (Wave-driven, Resonant, Arcuate-action, Surging Power-Absorber) will be evaluated through the use of computational and experimental modelling in a joint collaborative programme in the North West of England between Lancaster and MMU.

A second award of £600,000 from EPSRC to Aggidis forms part of £5.5m in funding for Lancaster University and partners at the Universities of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and Queen’s Belfast, as part of The EPSRC SuperGen Marine 2 research programme.

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