Economics of WECs

In wave energy, perhaps more so than any other industry, the economics of product development and product ownership are not separate from the product engineering and design. This is the case because, despite high potential of untapped energy resource and the constant attention of academic research and innovative companies and inventors, as yet no one has verifiably achieved a minimum viable product in a wave energy conversion system.

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