PowerBuoy
Recently we have been posting about the PowerBuoys developed by Ocean Power Technology. They will soon be connected to the word’s largest “Wave Hub” off the coast of England. They are also working toward deploying their buoys off the Oregon coast. Ocean Power Technologies announced this week the completion of the first-ever grid connection of a wave energy device in the United States. There is a video of the PowerBuoy in waves after the jump.
Commercial wave energy device completed at Hawaiian naval facility
OPT‟s system, which is named PowerBuoy, has been designed to produce utilities-grade, renewable energy that can be transmitted to the electricity grid through wave energy technology.
The successful connection has been deployed approximately three-quarters of a mile off the coast of Oahu in water depth of 100 feet.
In its test series, the PowerBuoy produced power from over 4,400 hours of operation, using numerous on-board sensors that analysed the performance of actual in-coming wave conditions.
Thanks to Alaric Bond for passing the article along.