BOCA RATON, Fla. (June 3, 2014) - Researchers at FAU's SNMREC will soon install the world’s first offshore test berth for small-scale ocean current turbines thanks to a recently signed five-year lease agreement between FAU and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
 Post date: June 3, 2014
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Post date: March 10, 2014
FAU’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center Successfully Tests Research Turbine Offshore
BOCA RATON, Fla. (March 10, 2014) – FAU’s SNMREC recently conducted the first at-sea tests of its ocean current research turbine offshore Fort Pierce. Two, one-hour tow tests provided researchers with new data on the turbine’s behavior for further design, development and validation. Press |
 Post date: February 17, 2014
SNMREC researchers performed the first ever tow test of a small scale research turbine designed and built at FAU. General |
Post date: January 22, 2014
BOCA RATON, Fla. (January 22, 2014) – The Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) at Florida Atlantic University has recovered a subsurface buoy that disappeared during a deployment near Fort Lauderdale in 2009. The buoy, discovered by a fisherman offshore Graciosa Island in the Azores, included acoustic instruments used to characterize how the Gulf Stream could be used to generate electricity. Press |
