Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) is to partner with a company specializing in marine energy to scope for potential project sites in Japan and surrounding regions.
The collaboration between the Tokyo-headquartered shipping giant and a firm called Bombora Wave Power will center on finding possible locations for the latter’s mWave system, as well as hybrid projects which combine mWave and wind energy.
The search for site locations follows on from what MOL described as a “detailed internal technical review” of Bombora’s wave energy converter technology.
Ryota Yamada, Bombora’s development manager for the Asia-Pacific region, said Thursday that MOL was a “significant collaboration partner” for the firm on what he described as a “pathfinder wave energy initiative in Japan”…
