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Reports on Wave and Tidal Energy Cost Reduction and Performance Improvement Opportunities

This submission contains two resources developed by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in 2025 for the U.S. Department of Energy/Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). The study identifies near-term opportunities to reduce costs and improve performance in wave and tidal current energy syst...

Yüzügüllü, E. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

May 27, 2025
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Oscylator cylinders

This is one of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The parameters for the test are in the info.txt file.

Taipale, J. Vortex Hydro Energy

Feb 07, 2017
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TEAMER: CalWave xWave New Technology Qualification and Path to Certification Final Report

CalWave is developing a wave energy converter (WEC) called xWave, which operates fully submerged and is classified as a submerged pressure differential type. As ocean waves pass over the submerged wave buoy, a pressure differential is created, exciting the absorber in multiple deg...

Petcovic, D. and Zhang, S. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Oct 31, 2022
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High Resolution Tidal Hindcast (US Tidal) Dataset

This Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) High Resolution Tidal Hindcast dataset (us-tidal) provides standardized tidal energy data for five strategically selected U.S. coastal locations with significant tidal energy potential. Developed collaboratively by Pacific Northwest Nati...

Yang, Z. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies

Jun 09, 2025
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Linear and Nonlinear Spectra for Time Series Measured in the North Sea

This submission includes both linear and nonlinear wave spectra for time series taken off the Ekofisk Oil Platform in the North Sea for the years 2003-2020. The raw data was sourced from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (https://www.met.no/en) and processed in Matlab. This...

Sutherland, A. Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Jan 28, 2025
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Laboratory Upgrade Point Absorber WEC-Sim Model with MoorDyn Moorings

This dataset includes a WEC-Sim and MoorDyn model of the Laboratory Upgrade Point Absorber (LUPA). LUPA is an open-source wave energy converter designed and tested by Oregon State University. The files provided here constitute a stable LUPA configuration with three mooring lines. ...

Mcconnell, A. Oregon State University

Oct 08, 2024
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Techno-Economic Analysis of AquaHarmonics Wave Energy Converter Using SAM: Baseline and Optimized LCOE Estimates

This dataset presents techno-economic modeling results for the AquaHarmonics Wave Energy Converter (WEC), analyzing both baseline and optimized system configurations using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's System Advisor Model (SAM). The models incorporate empirical perfo...

Hagmüller, A. et al AquaHarmonics, Inc.

Jun 24, 2025
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StingRAY Structural Optimization Final Technical Report Appendices

The protected data appendices to the public Final Technical Report. The overall project objective is to materially decrease the leveled cost of energy (LCOE) of the Columbia Power (CPower) StingRAY utility-scale wave energy converter (WEC). This will be achieved by reducing stru...

Lenee-Bluhm, P. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Aug 05, 2020
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Kvichak River RISEC Project Resource Reconnaissance and Physical Characterization, Igiugig, AK

During the summer and fall of 2011 TerraSond Ltd. (TerraSond) completed a bathymetric survey and hydrokinetic energy assessment of the Kvichak River at Igiugig, Alaska. The purpose of this work was to characterize the initial site conditions for the design and installation of a hy...

McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Oct 01, 2015
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TEAMER: Tidal Energy Resource Modeling Assessment and Environmental Biological Analysis in Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, AK

The deployment and operation of a floating and/or submerged tidal technology in the United States coastal water require characterizing tidal stream resource potential and assessing environmental conditions and satisfying all environmental permitting requirements. The waters of Coo...

Yang, Z. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jun 09, 2025
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NWEI Azura December 2016 Data

Data files for the NWEI Azura grid-connected deployment at the 30-meter berth of the US Navys Wave Energy Test Site (WETS 30m Site) at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) on the windward (northeast) coast of the island of Oahu, HI. See general documentation describing spe...

Lettenmaier, T. Northwest Energy Innovations

Dec 29, 2016
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Reference Model 4 Cost Breakdown (RM4: Ocean Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 4 (RM4) spreadsheets with the cost breakdown structure (CBS) for the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) calculations for a single RM4 device and multiple unit arrays. These spreadsheets are contained within an XLSX file and a spreadsheet editor such as Mi...

Neary, V. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 30, 2014
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NWEI AZURA Data for April 2018 Measured by MOIS (NREL)

Performance data (motion, power, mooring loads, position, heading, MOIS status) for the AZURA WEC operating at the Hawaii Wave Energy Test Site (WETS). Measured by Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS). These data are for the month of April 2018. Channel descriptions are i...

Driscoll, R. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2018
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TEAMER: FOSWEC Mooring Modeling and Analysis, Post Access Report and Data

Floating oscillating surge wave energy converters (FOSWECs) offer several advantages over bottom-hinged oscillating surge wave energy converters, including large wave potential at deep-water sites with fewer permitting and environmental concerns outside territorial waters. As a te...

Housner, S. et al Virginia Tech

Jun 14, 2022
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TEAMER: Technical Support for Aquantis (Materials): CRD-21-17762-0

The Aquantis Tidal Power Tug is a unique synthesis of best-available technologies and materials configured as a novel spar vessel to create an optimal platform for tidal stream energy conversion. The Power Tug utilizes an upstream-facing horizontal, 2-bladed rotor. To drive down c...

Swales, H. et al Aquantis, Inc.

Oct 17, 2024
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UNH TDP Shark Meter Raw Data and Processing Scripts Fall 2021

This submission contains raw Shark Power Meter data and processing scripts associated with MHKDR submission 394 (UNH TDP Concurrent Measurements of Inflow, Power Performance, and Loads for a Grid-Synchronized Vertical Axis Cross-Flow Turbine Operating in a Tidal Estuary, DOI: 10.1...