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September 9, 2025

In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy

  • Experts say the technology can be scaled up to tap the immense wave energy off America's coasts and help meet growing energy needs.
    • By DORANY PINEDA and JENNIFER McDERMOTT
    Associated Press

    Photo courtesy Echo Wave Power [enlarge]
    The boat-like steel structures are attached to an unused wharf on a site that once housed oil tanks at the Port of Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — On a recent sunny morning in a channel at the Port of Los Angeles, seven blue steel structures that look like small boats are lowered into the ocean one by one. Attached to an unused wharf on a site that once housed oil tanks, they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate renewable power. Nearby, a sea lion peeks from the water and pelicans and sea gulls soar overhead.


     
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