Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction

The SeaPower Platform is a two-body wave energy converter (WEC) that has been under development since 2008. The WEC is classed as a floating attenuator device with energy extracted via the relative motion (flex) of the two bodies about a hinged joint. A power take-off (PTO) system extracts power by damping the flex motion of the device. The project brings together design engineers and experts to carry out realistic small scale testing and conceptual full scale studies of a proposed novel form of the device to quantify performance improvements and the cost of energy and gauge the economic potential. This project will determine, in an open and verifiable manner, the power extraction capabilities of the device, along with the costs involved in delivering this power at full scale for Scottish and Irish marine locations.

www.4cengineering.co.uk

Project Manager

Wave Energy Scotland, 4c Engineering Consultancy, Sea Power Ltd, 4c Engineering Consultancy, Offshore Subsea Consultancy Services

Additional Information

Project Website

Project Status Is the project actively being planned or is deployed in the water (active)? Or was the project canceled or completed (inactive)?

Inactive

Project Life Cycle Project Progress through life cycle:<ul> <li>Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment</li> <li>Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active</li> <li>Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water</li> <li>Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations</li> <li>Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water</li></ul>

Completed

Operational Duration

January 2016 - 2018

Project Duration

2008 - 2018

Energy Resource

Wave

Project Scale

Full-scale

Number of Devices

1

Country

United Kingdom

Last Modified

6 June 2025

This Project has the following MRE Devices

Citation Formats

“Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https:https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Attenuator_Cost_of_Energy_Reduction. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.

Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects. <year>. "Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction." Accessed <monthRoman> <day>, <year>. https:https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Attenuator_Cost_of_Energy_Reduction.

PRIMRE/Databases/Projects Database/Projects/Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction

Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction

This Project has the following MRE Devices

Filters:

Citation Formats