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In 2008, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Wind and Water Power Program issued a funding opportunity announcement to establish university-led National Marine Renewable Energy Centers. Oregon State University and the University of Washington combined their capabilities in wave and ...

Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center Project fishing vessel charter survey and South Energy Test Site (SETS) selection evaluation report.

TRIAXYS data from the NNMREC-SETS, for Nov. 2014 Jan. 2015, and May 2015 Dec. 2015. The data consists of: Date, Time, significant wave height (1 hour average), significant wave period (1 hour average).

From July 29 through October 4, 2013 a TRIAXYS wave buoy was deployed in the Pacific Marine Energy Center North Energy Test Site. This submission includes all the preprocessed data extracted from the binary TRIAXYS recordings, as well as scripts to parse the data into MATLAB.

Turbulence data collected in from a SWIFT drifter repeatedly released over the ORPC RivGen turbine

Plans for Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) Project. Mobile Ocean Test Berth (MOTB) plans PMEC-SETS Plans

Acoustic backscatter data from a WBAT operating at 70kHz deployed at PMEC-SETS from April to September of 2016. 180 pings were collected at 1Hz every two hours, as part of the Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) for Marine Energy project. Data was subject to preliminary pr...

The TidGen Power System generates emission-free electricity from tidal currents and connects directly into existing grids using smart grid technology. The power system consists of three major subsystems: shore-side power electronics, mooring system, and turbine generator unit (TGU...

Acoustic Pilot surface survey at the South Energy Test Center at Newport (Oregon). Data collected with a SIMRAD EK-60 echosounder using four frequencies (38, 70, 120 and 200 kHz).

Model hindcast and Surface Wave Instrument Float With Tracking (SWIFT) buoy observations during extreme conditions offshore of Newport, OR

Spreadsheet which provides estimates of reductions in Levelized Cost of Energy for a surge-mode wave energy converter (WEC). This is made available via adoption of the advanced control strategies developed during this research effort.

Multi-year measurements of current velocity, salinity, and temperature from fixed and vessel-mounted sensors quantify Gulf Stream (GS) MHK resource variability and inform development off Cape Hatteras, NC. Vessel transects across the GS demonstrate a jet-like velocity structure wi...

Density values from active acoustic measurements at South Energy Test Site. This data correspond to a bottom mounted upward-looking WBAT, deployed from April 19th to September 30th. Samples (175 pings) were collected hourly at 1Hz.

This is radar data recorded by Oregon State University's Nearshore Remote Sensing Group near the TRIAXYS buoy at PMEC-SETS off the coast of Newport, OR on December 15, 2015.

This report outlines marine field demonstrations for manipulation tasks with a semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (sAUV). The vehicle is built off a Seabotix vLBV300 platform with custom software interfacing it with the Robot Operating System (ROS). The vehicle utilizes an inertia...

This submission includes all the data to support an LCOE baseline assessment for the Resolute Marine Energy (RME) Surge WEC device.

Full data set (six deployments) from the Surface Wave Instrument Float With Tracking (SWIFT) buoy deployments at the Newport South Energy Test Site during extreme wave events.

This archive includes data from the University of Washington WASIRF (Washington Air-Sea Interaction Research Facility) flume. WASIRF is a laboratory testing tank at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center designed to investigate wind-wave-current interactions. It inc...

Demand for abundant and diverse resources in the oceans is growing, necessitating marine spatial planning. To inform development of Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) and Offshore Wind (OSW) resources, the Department of Energy (DOE) has asked NREL to identify the competing uses areas betwe...

From November 2014 through December 2015 a TRIAXYS wave buoy was deployed in the Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site. This submission includes all the preprocessed data extracted from the binary TRIAXYS recordings. There was no data for February, March, or April, a...

Tripod and mooring data using acoustic doppler velocimeter (ADV) and acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) of tidal turbulence. When using the data, please cite the J. Oceanic Eng. paper included in this submission, and please contact Jim Thomson prior to submitting publication...

Focusing on a marine hydrokinetic energy application, this paper presents a combined geometric, structural, and control co-design framework for optimizing the performance of energy-harvesting kites subject to structural constraints. While energy-harvesting kites can offer more tha...

First commissioning data for the new laser doppler velocimetry (LDV) system that will be used at the Tyler Flume at the University of Washington. The LDV system can measure three components of velocity at a point. For this dataset the three components were operated in non-coincide...

The goal of this project is to design, fabricate, and test a hermetically sealed 50 kilowatt (kW) multistage magnetically geared generator (MGG). This project will benefit MHK device developers by providing an MHK PTO that overcomes the reliability concerns of the mechanical gears...

System description of ORPC RivGen(R) Power System utilized at Igiugig, AK for testing of advanced controls