Wave power firm Trident Energy received a visit from energy and climate change minister Lord Hunt last Friday.
He visited the Lowestoft facility where a 20 kilowatt wave power rig was constructed.
Trident Energy uses a direct energy conversion system which does not require hydraulic or pneumatic systems.
It uses linear generators, which convert straight-line motion directly into electricity.
The motion for these linear generators comes from the up and down movement of floats placed on the sea surface.
Inventor Hugh-Peter Kelly said: "Wave energy has been neglected. It is the hardest but most rewarding form of renewable energy. Forty percent of our entire national energy needs for electricity can come from harnessing wave power around the UK."
E.ON has invested in both tidal and wave power technologies.
As well as an eight megawatt tidal stream project of the UK's west coast, it announced an agreement to develop a wave energy project off the north coast of Cornwall.
