DOE Announces “Waves to Water” Desalination Prize Final Stage Finalists
The DOE has announced five winners in the CREATE Stage of the Waves to Water Prize, a competition focused on using the power of waves to develop clean energy-powered desalination technologies to help provide potable water to communities in need. CREATE is the fourth of the five-stage Waves to Water Prize, with total funds of up to $3.3M.
Awarded to a DOE EPSCoR jurisdiction:
DUO Wave-Powered Desalination System, Orono, Maine
Winners will advance to the final stage of the prize, DRINK. In the DRINK Stage, competitors will have up to 180 days to build and ship their wave-powered desalination prototypes to Jennette's Pier in North Carolina, where the devices will undergo up to five days of testing in the open ocean.