The funding comes through a Plus Up award, from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of the Mariner programme. This milestone achievement marks a significant leap forward in Ocean Rainforest‘s commitment to advancing offshore giant kelp cultivation technologies in California.
The company’s main production centre is in the Faroe Islands, but the award will allow it to operate an 86-acre, offshore Macrocystis pyrifera cultivation testbed in the Santa Barbara Channel. This effort will allow the Ocean Rainforest team to pioneer the development and demonstration of high yield macroalgal cultivation technologies in true offshore conditions…
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