Reedsport PB150 Deployment and Ocean Test Project

Hart, Phil¹ 

[1] Ocean Power Technologies Inc., Pennington, NJ (United States)

关键词: wave energy;    wave energy harvesting;    marine hydrokinetic;    power take-off;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1255820
RP-ID  :  None
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1255820

学科分类：再生能源与代替技术

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

As the first utility scale wave power project in the US, the Wave Power Demonstration Project at Reedsport (OR) was planned to consist of 10 PowerBuoys (Phase II)1, located 2.5 miles off the coast. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding under a prior DOE Grant (DE-FG36-08GO88017) along with funding from PNGC Power, an Oregon-based electric power cooperative, was utilized for the design completion, fabrication, assembly and factory testing of the first PowerBuoy for the Reedsport project. The design and fabrication of the first PowerBuoy and factory testing of the power take-off subsystem were completed, and the power take-off subsystem was successfully integrated into the spar at the fabricator???s facility in Oregon. The objectives of this follow-on grant were: advance PB150B design from TRL 5/6 to TRL 7/8; deploy a single PB150 and operate autonomously for 2 years; establish O&M costs; collect environmental information; and establish manufacturing methodologies.