The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to design, evaluate, fabricate, and test wave energy converter power take-off systems.
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September 24, 2025
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to design, evaluate, fabricate, and test wave energy converter power take-off systems.
The design, simulation, development, analysis, fabrication, and laboratory testing of the adaptive stiffness power take-off system, surface buoy hardware, and control system would take place at NCSU's Aerospace Engineering Laboratory in Raleigh, NC. A pre-existing linear motion dynamometer would also be utilized at this facility to test the take-off system. Hose-pump hardware design, simulation, development, fabrication, analysis, and laboratory testing would occur using pre-existing tensile testing machines at NCSU's Chemistry and Science Facility in Raleigh, NC. Design, fabrication, and testing of a laboratory-scale integrated system in a wave tank would occur at East Carolina University's Coastal Studies Institute in Wanchese, NC.