REEDSPORT — Reedsport has been passed over as the site for a wave energy research center based at Oregon State University. Newport will be home to the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, the university announced Monday. The center announced in September that Newport and Reedsport were the finalists for the $25 million center, the first grid-connected wave energy test site in the United States. The center chose Newport for multiple reasons, including the central coast city’s higher profile, site coordinator Kaety Hildenbrand said today. “External reviewers felt that from competing on a global market place, Newport would give us …