Ocean Power Technologies and Lockheed Martin to Collaborate on Utility Scale PowerBuoy for Oregon Wave Power Project

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. OPTT is pleased to announce it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin LMT in connection with OPT's proposed commercial-scale wave power generation project at Reedsport, Oregon. Lockheed Martin will provide design, manufacturing, system integration and supply chain management expertise to enhance OPT's PowerBuoy technology. This builds on previous work conducted by Lockheed Martin and OPT. This collaboration follows a $2.4 million contract awarded by the US Department of Energy to OPT as part of US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's initiatives announced in September 2010 to promote the development of renewable marine energy.