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Energy Clusters Offshore: A Technology Feasibility Review Open

Chloe Constant, Caitlyn Clark, Mariya Koleva, Kaitlin Brunik, Jared Thomas , et al. · 2024

Globally, governments, companies, and other organizations have committed to achieving net-zero emissions targets in the coming decades. To achieve decarbonization at the scale and pace required to meet these targets, future energy systems …

Understanding the uncertainty in the technical performance level assessment for wave energy Open

Ali Trueworthy, Aeron Roach, Bryony DuPont, Thomas Mathai, Jesse D. Roberts , et al. · 2024

Marine Energy Technology Development Risk Management Framework Open

David Snowberg, Ritu Treisa Philip, Jochem Weber · 2024

Over the past decades, the global marine energy industry has suffered a number of serious technological and commercial setbacks. To help reduce the risks of industry failures and advance the development of new technologies, the U.S. Depart…

Flexible wave energy converter Open

Blake Craig Craig Boren, Jochem Weber · 2024

Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter u…

Electric machines as motors and power generators Open

Panagiotis G. Datskos, Jochem Weber, Blake Boren · 2023

Devices, methods, and systems for electrostatic machines which can act as both an electric motor, converting electrical energy to mechanical energy, and an electric generator, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, are describe…

Ocean Energy: Markets – Currency – Impact. Dimension of & Choices in the Technology Development Space Open

Jochem Weber · 2023

Reflecting in the acceleration of the changes in ecological, climatological and generally planetary health, it is critical to employ those energy source as well and those energy used that are of the highest ratio of benefit to effort and d…

Hexagonal Distributed Embedded Energy Converters (HexDEECs) Open

James Niffenegger, Blake Boren, Nicole Mendoza, Paul Murdy, Jochem Weber · 2022

Distributed Embedded Energy Converter Technologies (DEEC-Tec) is a new domain for marine renewable energy research that utilizes a conglomeration of small distributed embedded energy converters (DEECs) that, in aggregate, form larger metam…

Collaborative TPL Assessment of Wave Energy Converters and Farms Open

William Peplinski, Jesse Roberts, Jochem Weber, Thomas Mathai, Lee Jay Fingersh , et al. · 2022

The Technology Performance Level (TPL) assessment is a holistic methodology to assess a wave energy converter (WEC) technology’s ability to achieve [continental grid] market competitiveness and acceptability via criteria-based consideratio…

WBS 2.2.1.402 - Wave-SPARC: Systematic Process & Analysis for Reaching Commercialization Open

Jochem Weber, Jesse Roberts · 2022

Wave-SPARC is empowering the marine energy community with the tools necessary to achieve a significant improvement in techno-economic performance of wave generated grid power. A detailed systems engineering approach simultaneously balances…

On the Road to Innovations. Open

Jochem Weber, Blake Boren, Jesse D. Roberts, Kim G. Nielsen, Ronan Costello · 2022

Adapting the Technology Performance Level Integrated Assessment Framework to Low-TRL Technologies Within the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Industry, Part I Open

Nicole Mendoza, Thomas Mathai, Blake Boren, Jesse Roberts, James Niffenegger , et al. · 2022

With the urgent need to mitigate climate change and rising global temperatures, technological solutions that reduce atmospheric CO 2 are an increasingly important part of the global solution. As a result, the nascent carbon capture, utiliz…

WaveSPARC: TPL Assessment - Guiding Technology Development Trajectories to Successful Outcomes in Less Time, at Less Overall Cost, and With Less Encountered Risk Open

Jochem Weber, Jesse Roberts, Robert Preus, Blake Boren, Thomas Mathai , et al. · 2022

The advantage of using Technology Performance Level (TPL) in conjunction with Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessments in guiding technology development trajectories to successful outcomes in less time, at less overall cost, and with l…

Developing Technology Performance Level Assessments for Early-Stage Wave Energy Converter Technologies: Preprint Open

Nicole Mendoza, Thomas Mathai, Dominic Forbush, Blake Boren, Jochem Weber , et al. · 2021

The advantage of using Technology Performance Level (TPL) in conjunction with Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessments in guiding technology development trajectories to successful outcomes in less time, at less overall cost, and with l…

Airborne Wind Energy Open

Jochem Weber, Melinda Marquis, Aubryn Cooperman, Caroline Draxl, Rob Hammond , et al. · 2021

Airborne wind energy (AWE) is “the conversion of wind energy into electricity using tethered flying devices”. Pursuit of AWE and airborne wind energy systems began in 1980. Interest and investment in AWE have grown substantially in the las…

NREL. Airborne Wind Energy Open

Jochem Weber, Melinda Marquis, Aubryn Cooperman, Caroline Draxl, Rob Hammond , et al. · 2021

Airborne wind energy (AWE) is “the conversion of wind energy into electricity using tethered flying devices” (Schmehl 2020.) Pursuit of AWE and airborne wind energy systems began in 1980 (Loyd 1980). Interest and investment in AWE have gro…

Proceedings of the 2021 Airborne Wind Energy Workshop Open

Jochem Weber, Melinda Marquis, Alexsandra Lemke, Aubryn Cooperman, Caroline Draxl , et al. · 2021

On March 2-3, 2021, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducted a virtual workshop to evaluate the status, potential development, and technical viability of AWE systems as a source of energy in the United States. Stakeholder …

WaveSPARC: Evaluation of Innovation Techniques for Wave Energy. Open

Ronan Costello, Kim G. Nielsen, Jochem Weber, Nate Tom, Jesse D. Roberts · 2020

Requirements for Realistic and Effective Wave Energy Technology Performance Assessment Criteria and Metrics. Open

Jochem Weber, Ronan Costello, Kim G. Nielsen, Jesse D. Roberts · 2020

Parametric modelling of a reconfigurable wave energy device Open

Louis Papillon, Liguo Wang, Nathan Tom, Jochem Weber, John V. Ringwood · 2019

Existing Ocean Energy Performance Metrics Open

Ann Dallman, Jochem Weber, David Schoenwald, Lauren Moraski, Scott Jenne · 2019

This document summarizes existing Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) performance metrics known to the United States Department of Energy and national laboratories. This document was updated based on feedback from the MHK Energy community, howev…

Scoring the Technology Performance Level (TPL) Assessment. Open

Jesse D. Roberts, Ronan Costello, Diana Bull, Robert Malins, Jochem Weber , et al. · 2018

Cost time and risk assessment of different WEC technology development paths. Open

Jesse D. Roberts, Jochem Weber, Daniel Laird, Ronan Costello, Diana Bull , et al. · 2018

Stakeholder requirements for commercially successful wave energy converter farms Open

Aurélien Babarit, Diana Bull, Katherine Dykes, Robert Malins, Kim Dremstrup , et al. · 2017

Technology performance level (TPL) assessment Open

Diana Bull, Ronan Costello, Aurélien Babarit, Kim Dremstrup, Ben Kennedy , et al. · 2017

Technical Submission Form: Technical Specification of a Wave Energy Farm. Open

Jesse Roberts, Kim Dremstrup, Ben Kennedy, Diana Bull, Ronan Costello , et al. · 2017

The Wave - SPARC project developed the Technology Performance Level (TPL) assessment procedure based on a rigorous Systems Engineering exercise. The TPL assessment allows a whole system evaluation of Wave Energy Conversion Technology by me…

Systems Engineering Applied to the Development of a Wave Energy Farm. Open

Jesse Roberts, D R Bull, Ronan Costello, Aurélien Babarit, Kim Dremstrup , et al. · 2017

A motivation for undertaking this stakeholder requirements analysis and Systems Engineering exercise is to document the requirements for successful wave energy farms to facilitate better design and better design assessments. A difficulty i…

Technology Performance Level Assessment Methodology. Open

Jesse Roberts, D R Bull, Robert Malins, Ronan Costello, Aurélien Babarit , et al. · 2017

The technology performance level (TPL) assessments can be applied at all technology development stages and associated technology readiness levels (TRLs). Even, and particularly, at low TRLs the TPL assessment is very effective as it, holis…

Investigation on the energy absorption performance of a fixed-bottom pressure-differential wave energy converter Open

Aurélien Babarit, Fabian Wendt, Y.-H. Yu, Jochem Weber · 2017

Scoring the Technolgy Performance Level (TPL) assessment Open

Diana Bull, Ronan Costello, Aurélien Babarit, Kim Dremstrup, Ben Kennedy , et al. · 2017

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Cost, time and risk assessment of different wave energy converter technology development trajectories Open

Jochem Weber, Daniel Laird, Ronan Costello, Diana Bull, Aurélien Babarit , et al. · 2017

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