{"id":193784,"date":"2010-01-18T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:32:14","slug":"ocean-power-technology-ceo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/193784","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Power Technology CEO Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/tidal.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tidal &amp; Wave\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5606\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/picture-31-150x150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5606\" title=\"picture-31-150x150\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/picture-31-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PowerBuoy <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a surprising development, Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has announced that CEO Mark Draper is leaving the company\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/..\/2009\/02\/ocean-power-technologies-appoints-new-ceo\/\">less than a year<\/a> after taking the top position from company founder Dr. George Taylor, citing personal reasons.\u00a0 AIM-listed OPT, which has developed the PowerBuoys generator, a water buoy that capture waves to generate electricity, has appointed Chief Financial Officer Charles Dunleavy to replace him.<span id=\"more-5605\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dunleavy, 60, joined OPT in 1994 and has served as CFO since 2001. He has been a company director since 1990. The Company says it will appoint a new CFO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/..\/2009\/11\/wave-power-developer-opt-gets-60m-funding-for-australian-utility-scale-power-project\/\">Last November<\/a> OPT received A$66.46 million ($60.65 million) grant from Australia\u2019s Resources &amp; Energy Ministry to finance construction of a 19 megawatts wave power project on the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>OPT has also deployed 10 PowerBuoys generators off Spain\u2019s Atlantic Coast as part of a 1.39-megawatt project it\u2019s developing with Iberdrola and is working on a utility-scale initiative with Lockheed Martin off the Oregon coast. Back in Europe, OPT is developing Wave Hub, a 20-megawatt project, in Cornwall, England.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/iXXjtE-bnZA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PowerBuoy In a surprising development, Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has announced that CEO Mark Draper is leaving the company\u00a0 less than a year after taking the top position from company founder Dr. George Taylor, citing personal reasons.\u00a0 AIM-listed OPT, which has developed the PowerBuoys generator, a water buoy that capture waves to generate electricity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}