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CorPower Strikes Wave Energy Pact with COER Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean and the Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) at Maynooth University, Ireland, announced a new collaboration on control technology for optimising the operation of Wave Energy Converters (WECs). Read the full article published in Marine Energy Biz here...

2020 Maynooth Wave Energy Workshop     The Centre for Ocean Energy Research hosted the 6th Maynooth University Wave Energy Workshop on 24th January 2020. We would like to thank everyone for attending and participating.  For more information, for our attendee list and presentations see: http://www.eeng.nuim.ie/coer/past-events/mwew2020/   The 2020 Maynooth Wave Energy Workshop was generously sponsored by       ...

Science Night! The Coer lab are looking forward to welcoming several budding young engineers to Maynooth University Foyer this evening at 6pm for this year's Science Night! Who can use our mini-WEC to create the perfect wave for the most energy?  We can't wait to see...... Special thanks to MaREI for their continued support.  ...

WECCCOMP winners! Big news! The WECCCOMP experimental evaluation has now concluded and the results validated. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the experimental stage was the team from IFPEN, France! Many congratulations! In fact, the IFPEN team also took the honours at the simulation stage, showing consistently good performance over the 2 stages. However, in the end, there was little daylight between the competitors, all teams performing well in both simulation and at the experimental stage. Probably the most unexpected aspect is that the IFPEN EC score in implementation was even better than the simulation score. A remarkable achievement, considering modelling inaccuracies and noisy measurements! click here for more information....

Our new paper, which performs a comparison of all current (at the time of writing) methods for excitation force estimation in wave energy devices Pena-Sanchez, Y.,Windt, C., Davidson, J. and Ringwood, J.V.  A Critical Comparison of Excitation Force Estimators for Wave Energy Devices has been published (early access) in IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology. DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2019.2939092. Draw your own conclusions - any feedback appreciated! Also, two other papers have just been assigned to a formal issue in the IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy: P. B. Garcia-Rosa, J. V. Ringwood, O. B. Fosso and M. Molinas, The Impact of Time–Frequency Estimation Methods on the Performance of Wave Energy Converters Under Passive and Reactive Control, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1784-1792, Oct. 2019. doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2018.2870966 C. Auger, A. Mérigaud and J. V. Ringwood, Receding-Horizon Pseudo-spectral Control of Wave Energy Converters Using Periodic Basis Functions, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1644-1652, Oct. 2019. doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2018.2868546...

Our very own Prof Ringwood, was awarded the 2019 Maynooth University PhD Supervisor Award last Friday during Science Week.  Congratulations John!...

The Coer lab spent the week in Naples at the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2019).  Some of the thematic tracks this year included: Wave / tidal resource characterisation. Wave / tidal device development and testing. Wave / tidal hydrodynamic modelling. Grid integration, PTO & control. Station keeping, moorings and foundations. Structural mechanics – materials, fatigue, loadings. Environmental impact and appraisal. Operations, maintenance and decommissioning. Economical, social, legal and political aspects of ocean energy...

VI Marine Energy Conference Best Poster Award                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ...

This new paper shows how linear and nonlinear parametric hydrodynamic models for wave energy devices can be determined from experimental data, typically recorded from tank tests. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ZPi-6nh6op3i...