Seawater aging response was investigated in marine-grade glass/epoxy, glass/vinyl ester, carbon/epoxy and carbon/vinyl ester composites with respect to water uptake, interlaminar shear strength, flexural strength, tensile strength, and tensile fracture surface observations. The re...

The purpose of the Open Water Deployment Report is to provide an overview of the installation of the ORPC RivGen 2.0 Power System in Igiugig, AK, in 2019, beginning with the transportation of the system to Igiugig and ending with the deployment of the device to the Kvichak River b...

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...

Collection of Power Take-Off (PTO), Power Conversion Chain (PCC), and relevant device metrics to be used for performance assessment of the Control co-designed PTO including brief summary of literature, baseline, and target metrics values.

Risk Registers for major subsystems completed according to the methodology described in the Risk Management Plan [DE-EE0008627 D1.2 Risk Management Plan PD v1.1 07-19-2019.pdf], also included here.

The objective of the project is to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) developed by CalWave Wave Power Technologies Inc (CalWave) through advanced numerical simulations, dynamic hardware tests, and ultimately a scaled open water demonstr...

This report outlines the "MASK3" wave tank test within the Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls (AWDC) project. This test represents the final test in the AWDC project. The focus of the MASK3 test was to consider coordinated 3-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) control of a WEC in a realistic...

Data from tank tests collected using AquaHarmonics 1:20 scale model that occurred in June and October 2018.

Performance data (motion, power, mooring loads, position, heading, MOIS status) for the AZURA WEC operating at the WETS test site in Hawaii. These data are for the month of April 2018. Channel descriptions are in the various data files Note: all files are in labview national ins...

Performance data (motion, power, mooring loads, position, heading, MOIS status) for the AZURA WEC operating at the WETS test site in Hawaii. These data are for the month of February 2018. Note that the WEC was deployed in mid February, so data begins at the beginning of the month....