CorPower Ocean to Develop 5MW Wave Energy Farm off Scotland
energy project at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland.Scheduled for deployment in 2029, the 5 MW array is expected to become the UK’s largest wave energy project. It will be deployed at EMEC’s grid-connected Billia Croo wave energy test site and consist of 14 wave energy converters (WECs), operating for up to 15 years.The WECs feature a 9-meter diameter spherical composite hull – one of the strongest shapes in nature - which drives the movement of the power take-off as it responds to passing waves.Key innovations include CorPower Ocean’s WaveSpring technology
CorPower Ocean, NTNU Join Forces for AI-Based Wave Energy Project
and Technology (NTNU).A model-based design framework will be used in the WACE project. After establishing requirements for the closed-loop control system, an AI-based optimal control strategy is being designed along with a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test setup.CorPower Ocean anticipates that its wave energy converters are operated in arrays or farms which will generate a vast amount of data. This project also aims for utilizing the available data to enhance an existing model-predictive control strategy combining optimal model-based control with AI.This combination allows the exploration of more performant
Swedish Firm Lines Up $35M Investment in Its Wave Energy Tech
, Portugal and Norway.One project is being developed by Ireland’s state-owned energy supplier, ESB, off the coast of County Clare, following two decades of investigating a wide variety of technologies.The pre-commercial phase of the EU-backed Saoirse Wave project, will involve CorPower Ocean wave energy converters as part of a CorPack cluster.“Today’s announcement follows breakthrough results reported earlier this year from the firm’s ocean demonstration at the Aguçadoura site in northern Portugal, where the CorPower C4 became the first commercial scale wave device to successfully
Unlocking Ocean Power: $3.6M for Community-centric Wave Energy Converters
harvest it or assess the technology.“Everybody knows what a wind turbine looks like because the research community has rallied behind a single idea,” said Jeff Scruggs, U-M professor of civil and environmental engineering and the project’s co-principal investigator. “For wave energy converters, that’s not the case. When you look at the devices that companies are deploying for their trials, they are nothing like each other. Everybody’s got their own idea about the best way to harvest wave energy.”Companies and laboratories have tested a wide host of concepts: bobbing
US Wave Energy Set for Government Commercialization Boost of $112M
The U.S. Department of Energy has made its largest ever investment in marine energy, making $112.5 million available for the commercialization of wave energy technologies.This five-year investment is expected to significantly accelerate the design, fabrication, and testing of multiple wave energy converters (WECs), which harness power from ocean waves.Administered by the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), the investment is designed to support development and testing of WECs to provide power for at-sea applications, such as ocean observation, aquaculture, and marine carbon dioxide removal
EU Grants Over $20M for Pilot Wave Energy Farm Offshore Portugal
The Ondas de Peniche (ONDEP) project has been awarded $21 million (€19 million) from the EU’s Horizon Europe funding program to deploy a 2 MW wave energy array featuring four WaveRoller wave energy converters.The ONDEP project will start in October 2024 and last for five and a half years, encompassing the full spectrum of project activities - from design and manufacturing to testing, deployment, and operation.Set in the surfing hub of Peniche, Portugal, the pilot wave farm will be installed and connected to the grid and will continue generating electricity for an additional eight years
European Wave Energy Project Gets $4.4M Funding Boost
Union’s Horizon program has approved a $4.4 million grant for SHY project, which will develop a new power take-off (PTO) system with advanced control strategy, aimed at reducing the cost of wave energy.SHY project, short for Seawater Hydraulic PTO using dynamic passive controller for wave energy converters, is a collaborative project whose aim is to develop key components of a seawater hydraulic PTO system, coupled with an advanced control strategy.The dual focus aims to reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) while minimizing the environmental impact at the same time.The SHY project consortium
Mocean Energy Raises Funds for Blue Star Wave Energy Technology
Scotland with around 80 per cent local supply chain content, and it is anticipated Blue Horizon will deliver similar levels of local work. In March, Mocean Energy selected Aberdeen-based TEXO Engineering and Fabrication as its preferred fabrication, assembly and load-out contractor for its future wave energy converters.The deployment and demonstration of the Blue X at EMEC was funded by Wave Energy Scotland (WES) and supported by Interreg North-West Europe’s Ocean DEMO project
CorPower Ocean Installs First Commercial Wave Energy Converter Offshore Portugal
CorPower Ocean,a Sweden-based developer of wave energy converters (WEC), said Tuesday it had installed its first commercial-scale WEC in northern Portugal, "as it accelerates towards making wave energy a bankable technology for mass deployment."The CorPower C4 device was launched in the port of Viana do Castello, before being towed to the Aguçadoura site located 4km offshore.After connecting to a pre-installed UMACK anchor on the seabed, the device was connected to the Portuguese national grid through a subsea export cable. The system will now undergo a commissioning program, with
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