Ocean Energy Demonstration of the Ocean Energy (OE) Buoy at US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site Award Number: DE-EE0006924 CX(s) Applied: A9, B5.25 Water Power Program Date: 04/06/2016 Location(s): HI Office(s): Golden Field Office
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April 6, 2016
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Ocean Energy Demonstration of the Ocean Energy (OE) Buoy at US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site
Award Number: DE-EE0006924
CX(s) Applied: A9, B5.25
Water Power Program
Date: 04/06/2016
Location(s): HI
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Ocean Energy USA, LLC (OE) to perform the detailed engineering, fabrication, deployment, and testing of a near full-scale demonstration Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) device for comparison of performance, reliability, and levelized cost of energy (LCOE). The results of the testing would allow OE to fully validate the structural loads, device performance, operations and maintenance (O&M) requirements, and build-cost.
The proposed project would include 21 distinct tasks. Design-related activities occur in Tasks 1-10, while fabrication, deployment and testing activities occur in Tasks 11-21. DOE previously completed a NEPA determination for Tasks 1-10 of the proposed project (GFO-0006924-001). This determination is for all remaining tasks.