Fort Collins-based Czero collaborating on project to harness wave power

FORT COLLINS — Czero Inc., an engineering firm based in Fort Collins, said on Tuesday it will provide engineering services to California-based CalWave Power Technologies Inc. in its effort to harness the power of ocean waves to produce electricity.

CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy seas and be hidden from sight.

CalWave is tapping Czero’s experience working on subsea systems and energy harvesting.

“This is an ideal project for us,” said Guy Babbitt, Czero’s co-founder and chief executive.

Unlike other renewables such as solar PV and wind, ocean…