BOCA RATON, Fla. (March 23, 2017) - FAU’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center, a U.S. Department of Energy designated center, has received a $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for undergraduate research.
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
