Partners
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute THOR is sponsoring research at Virginia Tech to develop advanced control systems for ocean current turbines. |
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| GL Garrad Hassan GL Garrad Hassan is the internationally recognized engineering experts in renewable energy. THOR is working with GL Garrad Hassan to systematically assess the best methods and device configurations to optimize the energy conversion process from hydrokinetic moving water into useable electrical power. GL Garrad Hassan has provided a third party independent energy yield assessment of THOR ROCT confirming net capacity factors in excess of 80%. |
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| Florida Atlantic University - Center for Ocean Energy Technology THOR is in FAU-COET's corporate partnering program and has worked with FAU since 2008. FAU-COET was recently designated the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center by the Department of Energy. The Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center is responsible for investigating all aspects of non-wind related ocean energy power generation, including the environmental effects/isses associated witht he deployment of ocean current turbines. |
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| Ocean Data Technologies THOR is working Ocean Data Technologies of Marston Mills, MA to deploy a system of acoustic Doppler current profiling (ADCP) current speed sensors to map, quantify and assess the ocean current resource off the southeastern United States. |
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| Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, BOE (former Minerals Management Services, MMS), has hosted meetings with THOR that have provided valuable insight into the permitting process required to located energy generation facilities on the outer continental shelf region. |
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| NORTEK, USA THOR is working with NORTEK on the supply and installation of acoustic Doppler current profilers for THOR's recirculating ocean current flume (ROC-Flume), the world's only open channel recirculating water current flume capable of creating time variant inverse velocity sheer profile water current in the test section that mimics real world ocean current flow behavior. |
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| Vision Energy LLC Vision is an onshore wind power development company that has provided funding, manpower and other resources to THOR. |
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| CODAR Ocean Sensors THOR is working with CODAR on the deployment of a system of costal observation and data acquisition radar systems to measure ocean current surface speeds in various areas of the Southeastern United States in the vicinity of the Gulf Stream. |
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| Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems THOR is sponsoring research in cooperation with VaCAS to develop advanced simulation and power control systems for ocean current turbines. |
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