Anchor Down Your Costs - The role of mooring design in driving down the cost of wave energy
Mooring is fundamental to all wave energy technologies. While its primary purpose is station keeping, mooring systems can provide much more depending on the characteristics of the wave energy converter (WEC). The right mooring design can enhance control, increase power absorption, provide greater machine survivability, and make operations and maintenance far more straightforward. At present, the wave energy sector is some way from being cost competitive with established ener