AquaHarmonics is structured around making wave-energy main stream with its slead project being the Wave Energy Collector (WEC). In 2016 principals of the firm won the $1.5M Wave Energy Prize in competition and shortl thereafter received a DOE grant to tackle construction of a 1:7th scale device for deployment and connection to the grid at the Navys 30m Wave Energy Test Site (WETS). Since then they have been working on their numerical models and control schemes for the performance of the scaled device in a wave tank in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories and Oregon State University (OSU) as well tackling design work and forming the required industry partnerships to manufacture a sea going device. The full scale version of Power Take Off (PTO) has undergone Phase 1 testing at the Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) facility at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM with promising results, and confirmation that the scaled tank data, numerical modelling, load and load case development, structural, mechanical, electrical, and software design of the PTO is in line with expected values.
