HMAS Stirling would not produce 2.6 million kilograms of carbon pollution over five years.Sydney (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Australia`s wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited on Monday announced that it had singed formal power supply and grid connection agreements for the Perth Wave Energy Project on Western Australia`s Garden Island submarine base with the Australian Department of Defense.
Carnegie said Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled the agreements on Monday at Carnegie`s Wave Energy Research facility at Fremantle, Western Australia.
Under the deal, Australia`s largest naval facility base HMAS Stirling is to exclusively purchase the power generated by Carnegie`s CETO wave energy project.
"CETO is exactly the sort of technology we should be supporting, " Carnegie Chief Executive Officer Michael Ottaviano told a press conference on Monday.
Ottaviano said the project would also contribute to Defense and Commonwealth greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she was pleased that the government had been able to support the development of this world- leading technology.
The deal would mean that HMAS Stirling would not produce 2.6 million kilograms of carbon pollution over five years, Gillard said.
The wave energy developer said Carnegie had been working with Defense since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2008.
According to Carnegie, the company is now focused on progressing detailed design of the project with construction and first power to the grid targeting the end of 2013.
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