Award Number: DE-EE0008630, CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, Water Power Technologies Office, Location(s): TX, Office(s): Golden Field Office
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May 17, 2019
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Award Number: DE-EE0008630
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Water Power Technologies Office
Location(s): TX
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Texas A&M University to design, fabricate, and test a scaled prototype of a Surface Riding Wave Energy Converter (SR-WEC). The SR-WEC would a cylindrical wave energy device containing magnets and coil. The device would float on the surface of the water. Wave action would move the magnet within the device to creating electricity. Three cylinders could be combined to make a triangular shaped device.