WaveBoost

WaveBoost is a three-year Horizon 2020 funded project aiming to instigate a step-change improvement to reliability and performance of a Wave Energy Converter through the development and validation of innovative Power Take-Off (PTO) technology. 
It addresses two key challenges:

• Storm survivability: many devices can only oscillate between certain limits, and can incur damage at the extreme end of the transition point of oscillation (also known as the 'end-stop problem'). End stop loads and end-stop systems have been a significant cause for failure in previous wave devices, and is often a driver of large and costly structures. 
• Fluctuating power input from ocean waves: solutions to smoothen power variability over single wave cycles have been demonstrated for direct drive PTO's, but solutions addressing the variability over multiple wave cycles could improve the overall efficiency and economics of such drive trains. 

WaveBoost aims to demonstrate innovative end-stop and power smoothing technology. These new solutions are expected to further improve the survivablity and reliability of resonant Wave Energy Converters.

For more information, see here (CorPower Ocean).
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 727598.