The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Triton Anchor, LLC (Triton) to develop and numerically model a Marine Energy Converter (MEC) and Co-use MEC platform arrays to challenge current anchoring behavior and derive anchor optimizations tailored specifically to omni-directional loading scenarios through physical centrifuge testing.
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November 7, 2025
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Triton Anchor, LLC (Triton) to develop and numerically model a Marine Energy Converter (MEC) and Co-use MEC platform arrays to challenge current anchoring behavior and derive anchor optimizations tailored specifically to omni-directional loading scenarios through physical centrifuge testing.
Computer-based analyses and simulations of full-scale and model-scale mooring, hydrodynamic and anchor design as well as geotechnical design work would occur at Triton's Office in Chelmsford, MA. Representative soil basin creation, set-up of anchor models, mooring, sensor, and laboratory centrifuge testing would occur at the Center for Geotechnical Modeling's purpose-built laboratories at the University of California, Davis in Davis, CA.