C-Power today announced subsea data collection and delivery provider Tiburon Subsea has joined the company’s Partner Engagement and Co-development (PEC) Program as a collaboration partner.
As a PEC Program member, Tiburon Subsea will collaborate on an upcoming demonstration of C-Power’s industry-leading SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS). The 18-month SeaRAY field test is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2025 at the PacWave South wave energy test site off the Oregon coast. During the deployment, C-Power plans to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the SeaRAY’s capabilities simultaneously supporting surface and subsurface mobile and static assets in the ocean with power and data communications.
PEC Program collaboration partners will be granted exclusive access to real-time data, reports, and insights throughout the Oregon SeaRAY demonstration, and they will provide feedback to improve the system’s usability for prospective use cases.
“C-Power and Tiburon Subsea share a belief that the future of the ocean economy is digital, autonomous, and resident. That future requires power and data,” said C-Power CEO Reenst Lesemann. “We are excited to work with Tiburon Subsea to test how the SeaRAY AOPS can deliver power and data solutions that enable their mission to disrupt conventional subsea data collection methods that are slow, scarce, expensive, unreliable, and unable to meet modern demands for subsea intelligence.”
“We believe that our dynamic underwater technologies will propel us into a new era in marine robotics helping to protect our oceans,” Tiburon Subsea CEO Tim Taylor said.
The Oregon co-demonstration is being conducted in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance the next generation of SeaRAY AOPS, expanding its use cases and proving long-duration survivability and reliability in one of the harshest ocean environments. The next-gen system has been developed under a $6 million program co-sponsored by the DOE, C-Power, and several PEC program participants.
A C-Power AOPS is a fully integrated system providing in-situ power, energy storage, and real-time data and communications support for offshore applications, including data-gathering equipment, robotic systems such as autonomous underwater vehicles, operating equipment, and uncrewed surface vessels. The SeaRAY AOPS at PacWave South will showcase advancements over prior generations of SeaRAY systems, including deep-water mooring capabilities, satellite communications, more generating capacity, increased transportability, improved maintenance and operations, and more efficient manufacturing.
About Tiburon Subsea
Founded by acclaimed ocean explorer Tim Taylor and famed ocean scientist Dr. Sylvia Earle, Tiburon Subsea is building the world’s first global autonomous undersea drone and data technology platform. Their proprietary Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs) are faster, more maneuverable, more reliable, and more versatile than current coastal survey vehicles. Ideal uses for the HAUV fleet will include site exploration, oceanographic research, biodiversity management, defense, wind and wave renewable energy survey and maintenance, export and inter-array cable inspection, hydrographic survey, subsea security, methane leak detection, and coastal health monitoring.
About C-Power
C-Power™ is an ocean power company, tapping the world’s largest battery — our oceans — to supply cost-effective, dependable, and predictable energy generation systems for our customers. Our mission is to deliver ocean energy into the global energy mix to unleash innovation and decarbonization in the $1.5 trillion ocean economy and beyond. From kilowatt- to megawatt-scale products, our systems reduce the dependency on liquid fuels for offshore energy needs and deliver clean energy onshore. We enable our customers and partners to reduce the cost, complexity, and carbon-intensity of their energy budgets and unlock innovative capabilities not possible today. Connect with C-Power on LinkedIn.
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