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The Wave Hub project has moved another step closer to reality after a £1m contract was placed for electrical equipment installation to link the wave-energy project with the National Grid.

The Wave Hub project has moved another step closer to reality after a £1m contract was placed for electrical equipment installation to link the wave-energy scheme with the National Grid.

Work will be carried out by Poole-based Powermann, which won a European-wide tender process to supply and install onshore electrical equipment. The company specialises in high-voltage power station and sub-station projects and employs 75 people in Dorset.

The Wave Hub project is being spearheaded by the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) and will create a giant grid-connected electrical socket on the seabed off the coast of Cornwall to enable wave-energy devices to be tested on a scale not seen before.

Earlier in August 2009, the government announced that south west England will become a world centre for wave and tidal energy after the region was designated the UK's first Low Carbon Economic Area because of its strength in marine energy.

The government is investing £9.5m in Wave Hub and a further £10m to support other marine-energy projects in the south west. The total Wave Hub project is now valued at £42m, with funding also secured from the European Regional Development Fund Convergence Programme (£20m) and the RDA (£12.5m).

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