MOWII Webinar: OCGen prototype testing: evaluating buoyancy pod/tension leg platforms for tidal energy development detail page

ORPC will present the results of the company’s design, permitting and testing of a mooring system for ocean energy devices in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Washington, the University of Maine, PCCI, Inc., and other private contractors. The project was installed in Cobscook Bay, Maine in early July 2014 and completed in mid-September.

The goals of the OCGen Module Mooring Project are:

• To design a standard mooring system and prove the technical and economic viability of a fast-water mooring system for hydrokinetic devices that are moored below the surface and above the bottom in reversing tidal environments;
• To document that the mooring system is environmentally friendly and economical due to the use of commonly available and commonly deployed components;
• To show that the system can be easily installed and removed using surface vessels;
• To help resolve a technologically significant and costly barrier to installation of tidal power systems; and
• To provide the company and others with means to accelerate commercialization of tidal energy power systems.

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