Innovative pre-tension solution reduces InfinityWEC electricity production cost
Karlskrona/Gothenburg, Sweden; 23 November 2022 – The InfinityWEC wave energy converter has been upgraded with an innovative solution which uses hydrostatic pressure to provide a constant pre-tension force in the power take-off (PTO), reducing size, weight, complexity, and ultimately cost of electricity production (LCoE).[Ocean Harvesting wave farm]In the upgraded InfinityWEC design, the PTO hull is split into two halves, with the top half moving up and down with the buoy, while the bottom half is fixed to the anchor. Similar solutions have been used by pressure-modulating wave energy