AWS Wave Power Development Experience
Lessons learnt from the wave power development experience of AWS Ocean Energy
AWS Ocean Energy Ltd
Project Overview
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Project Lead
AWS Ocean Energy Ltd
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Author
Wave Energy Scotland Ltd
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Date
April 2016
This overview report has been prepared by Wave Energy Scotland (WES), and is intended as a brief guide to the contents of the reports produced for WES by AWS Ocean Energy as part of Project Know-How.
Project Know-How is part of the on-going knowledge capture work within WES and was commissioned to capture lessons, knowledge and key operational experiences from the wave energy sector in Scotland, and in particular the technology development companies based there.
The AWS Ocean Energy reports cover the experience gained by AWS on a variety of wave energy projects, and discuss some of the drivers for technology decisions during their device development process.
This report provides a brief synopsis of the documents produced to act as a ‘sign post’ for the reader. A table in Section 8 gives details of the deliverables available from the project.
Note that additional reports, documents and data files referenced here and in the deliverables may not be currently available.
Project Keywords: Deployment, Installation, Operations & Maintenance, Fabrication, Survival, CAPEX, IP, Lessons Learnt, Patent, TRL, TPL, Yield, PTO
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