Co-designing the future of wave energy: Sandia researcher presents at NCROEP May 22, 2024 11:54 am Wave energy convertors (WECs) convert the motion of waves into electrical energy; however, designing devices to survive harsh marine environments... View Article
Pioneer WEC Concept Design Report webinar March 21, 2024 2:41 pm Join us for a free 90-minute webinar on April 2, 11 a.m. Eastern Time, focused on a novel “pitch resonator”... View Article
Surf’s Up! Free webinar on wave energy March 20, 2024 10:34 am Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli,... View Article
Project spotlight: WEC-Sim software simulates wave energy converters to improve WEC design and overall performance April 26, 2023 9:25 am To help meet the United States goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Program... View Article
Sandia Interactive Wave Energy Education Display (SIWEED) October 5, 2020 3:48 pm The Sandia Interactive Wave Energy Education Display (SIWEED) gives users a unique hands-on experience with wave energy. This interactive display... View Article
SWEPT Lab January 31, 2019 7:21 pm Overview The Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Lab tests wave energy converter (WEC) power take-off (PTO) systems. WECs are... View Article
Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model September 23, 2015 6:54 pm Many theoretical studies show that additional energy can be captured through control of the power-conversion chains (PCCs) of resonant wave-energy... View Article
Sandian Wins Award in 2015 OMAE Hydraulic Modeling Competition July 14, 2015 10:10 pm Carlos Michelen (in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies Dept.) and a team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers (Michael Lawson,... View Article
Floating Oscillating Water Column Reference Model Completed February 24, 2015 12:06 pm The DOE-supported Reference Model Project was developed to provide publicly available technical and economic benchmarks for a variety of marine... View Article
Water Power January 27, 2011 2:25 pm Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies harness energy from waves, currents, tides and ocean thermal gradients to generate clean, renewable energy... View Article