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Relevant sector information and guidance to aid in the design and development of wave energy projects.

The Levelised Cost of Energy calculation tool is provided to Wave Energy Scotland programme participants as an aid to illustrate their expectation for future costs and performance of a commercialised wave energy technology.

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Open source, Excel based, Operations and Maintenance (O&M) simulation tool for wave developers produced as part of an IDCORE Engineering Doctorate.

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The tool provides a structured method to support the early stages of design development, with attributes of potential Wave Energy Converter (WEC) generated and the scenarios ranked to illustrate which are likely to yield commercial success.

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Historic reports and procedures produced by Aquamarine Power Ltd to support the development, deployment and testing of the 315kW Oyster 1 OWSC WEC.

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Wave Energy Scotland are involved in ongoing international collaborations on the development of metrics to be used across the ocean energy sector. A number of workshops have been held and the outputs are available here.

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This IDCORE project has investigated the application of reinforcement learning and neural networks to the control of a point absorber. In particular, approaches with static sea states have been analysed. The controllers are proved to be adaptive to changes in wave conditions and system dynamics.

Project Keywords: Control, Control Systems

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Access Wave Energy Scotland's technical note looking at alternative generation options for wave energy.

Project Keywords: Power Take-Off, Generator, Dielectric Elastomer Generator

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