About us

Buoy deployment
WCWI buoy deployment

The WCWI team includes academics, government and private sector engineers who have a proven track record of productive collaboration in wave energy resource assessment, dynamics simulation of offshore systems and integration of renewable energy technologies.

The WCWI team consists of five University of Victoria professors, three dedicated full-time research engineers, four wave energy converter (WEC) developers, four ocean research companies and approximately 15 PhD and MSc students.  For more information of collaborating companies and research personal, visit here.

Funded by Natural Resources Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, WCWI provides the detailed knowledge, experience and expertise to thoroughly investigate the wave resource of the west coast of Vancouver Island (WCVI), complete detailed numerical simulations of numerous WEC’s in our waters and begin provide critically thought our solutions to the grid integration of this renewable energy resource.