Oscilla Power completes pre-testing and ships device to Carderock

Oscilla Power has just returned from a productive week of tank testing at University of Maine’s W2 basin. Testing of the 1:20 scale Triton WEC went sm

Water Power Technologies Office

July 20, 2016
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Oscilla Power has just returned from a productive week of tank testing at University of Maine’s W2 basin. Testing of the 1:20 scale Triton WEC went smoothly and power results showed good agreement with our numerical model predictions. Design improvements implemented between the 1:50 and 1:20 rounds of the competition proved fruitful in significantly boosting WEC’s wideband power capture. With a big thank you to the staff at the University of Maine, the 1:20 Triton model is now en route to the MASK basin, and we look forward to official testing in September.

Oscilla Power 1:20 scale Triton
Triton performing tank testing
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Video of the device in operation

Video courtesy of the Department of Energy