PacWave Anchoring and Mooring Study

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1996224· OSTI ID:1996224

Housner, Stein ^[1]; Sirnivas, Senu ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

PacWave, with its location in some of the most energetic waters in the nation and a buildout to support grid-connected devices, is poised to become a leader in field testing of wave energy converters (WECs) at high technology readiness levels. As part of the device deployment and testing protocols at PacWave, the client is responsible for providing all mooring system components, since there are currently no mooring system components specified for PacWave. NREL and PNNL have been tasked with conducting a preliminary analysis of permanent or temporary mooring systems at the PacWave South site. Previous work for this task included a global trade study of mooring systems used for WECs, and a site characterization of PacWave South. This current report will use the results of the previous studies to inform the design of various mooring systems to be installed at PacWave, which will allow cost analyses to be performed to compare the costs of acquisition of these mooring systems and the costs of mooring systems designed specifically for clients' devices.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1996224
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP--5000-84723; MainId:85496; UUID:c2616105-68c4-44f1-8c4a-fb0b62eacabc; MainAdminID:70231
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER
42 ENGINEERING
Anchor
Design
Marine Energy
Mooring
PacWave