Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) for Marine Energy Award Number: DE-EE0006816 CX(s) Applied: B3.16 Water Power Program Date: 06/17/2015 Location(s): OR Office(s): Golden Field Office
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June 17, 2015
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Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) for Marine Energy
Award Number: DE-EE0006816
CX(s) Applied: B3.16
Water Power Program
Date: 06/17/2015
Location(s): OR
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Oregon State University and the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) for their Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) project. The project’s goal is to accelerate the development of next-generation arrays of wave energy conversion (WEC) and tidal energy conversion (TEC) devices through a suite of field-focused R&D projects.
Each task listed in the SOPO for this award is a separate project being conducted by NNMREC partners for a total of six different projects. Project activities would involve debris modeling; detection and mitigation; autonomous monitoring and intervention; wave resource characterization; power transmission system research; anchoring and mooring systems; array design for performance enhancement; and refining biological sampling techniques.