Oscilla Power submitted its 1:20 build plan successfully at the end of January, and since then, we have continued to work on system optimization. We h
Water Power Technologies Office
February 12, 2016
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Oscilla Power submitted its 1:20 build plan successfully at the end of January, and since then, we have continued to work on system optimization. We have identified specific improvements that should significantly enhance wideband power capture of the Triton WEC and there appears to be room for even further improvement, giving us a good shot at exceeding WEP’s ACE threshold in the 1:20 scale tests.
Tim Mundon and Rahul Shendure will be at ICOE 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland later this month where Tim will be presenting recent research results on Triton’s asymmetric heave plate. If you will be in Edinburgh, please drop by the Oregon Wave Energy Trust booth and say hello.
Finally, we wanted to share a video that was taken during the 1:50 scale testing. While were running some additional tests, a glitch with the wave generators resulted in generation of a ‘rogue wave’ equivalent to a height of about 40m. The Triton model rode the wave without any problems and we were able to continue testing.