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Wave power seeks role in New Jersey renewable energy shift

https://nj1015.com/wave-power-seeks-role-in-new-jersey-renewable-energy-shift/

TRENTON – Advocates for wave power are trying to make a case to be included along solar and wind technologies as part of New Jersey’s clean energy future.

An Assembly committee held a hearing on the subject last week and were told that power derived from waves and ocean currents can be an economic and environmental help but gets little more than a passing mention in New Jersey’s energy master plan.


Patty Cronheim, campaigns director for the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, said wave power isn’t likely to rival wind and solar power but can be a complementary energy source – and that advances in technology are getting close to making it cost-effective.

“And I’ll tell you as a surfer and dangling my feet in the water, I can tell you the ocean is always moving,” Cronhim said. “Even on the flattest of days, it is a perpetual motion machine.”

Cronheim said wave power is expected to have more potential on the West Coast though still be helpful in the Northeast, especially farther offshore. But she said state lawmakers haven’t done anything to spur the use of wave power since 2007.



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