海洋能源技术开发商OPT推出混合动力浮标

据离岸工程网站6月26日消息 海洋能源技术开发商海洋动力技术公司（OPT）已经推出了名为混合动力浮标（PowerBuoy）的最新产品，扩大了产品范围。

混合动力浮标是一种浮标，为水下和平台上部应用、数据通信和1.5兆瓦时的标称能量储存提供远程动力。

虽然OPT以其系泊浮式浮标（如OPT PB3动力浮标）而闻名，但这种浮标是一种混合型浮标，这意味着它不一定依赖波浪发电，因为它利用太阳能电池板和斯特林备用发动机为上部或水下有效载荷提供动力。

OPT表示，这种混合动力浮标可以用于监测、监视、海底充电以及连接包括石油和天然气、科学和研究、水产养殖和电信在内的近海工业。

OPT表示：“在计划于今年春天对混合动力浮标进行开水试验之前，正在与潜在的客户进行讨论。”

OPT总裁兼首席执行官George Kirby表示：“我们的团队设计这款产品是为了满足众多潜在客户表达的海上电力需求。混合动力浮标为我们提供了额外的灵活性，为世界各地的地点设计经济高效的电力和通信解决方案。”

George Kirby 补充说：“我们所有的客户都致力于减少温室气体排放，提供的解决方案主要包括太阳能和丙烷燃料的备用电源，进一步减少了我们客户的碳足迹。在整个开发过程中，我们一直与客户进行的讨论表明，我们对混合动力浮标的性能有着真正的预期。”

浮标发电独立于波浪活动产生，公司认为这使其成为在极端天气和大浪或平静、低波浪环境（包括近岸和内陆水体）中发电的理想解决方案。

吴恒磊 编译自 离岸工程

原文如下：

Ocean Power Technologies Launches Hybrid PowerBuoy

Ocean Power Technologies, an ocean energy technology developer, has expanded its offering with the latest product called the hybrid PowerBuoy.

The hybrid PowerBuoy is a buoy that offers remote power for subsea and topside applications, data communications, and a nominal 1.5-megawatt-hours of energy storage.

While OPT is known for its moored floating buoys - such as OPT PB3 PowerBuoy - that harvest and store wave energy, this buoy is a hybrid, meaning it doesn't necessarily depend on waves to generate power, as it utilizes solar panels and a Stirling backup engine to power topside or subsea payloads.

OPT said that the hybrid Powerbuoy can be used for monitoring, surveillance, subsea charging, and connectivity for offshore industries including oil and gas, science and research, aquaculture, and telecommunications.

"Discussions are underway with prospective launch customers in advance of open water testing of the hybrid PowerBuoy planned for this spring," OPT said.

“Our team designed this product to meet the offshore power needs expressed by numerous potential customers,” said George Kirby, OPT President and Chief Executive Officer. "The hybrid PowerBuoy provides us with additional flexibility in designing cost-effective power and communications solutions for locations around the world."

“All of our customers are focused on reducing greenhouse gasses,” Kirby added. “Offering a solution that incorporates primarily solar with propane-fueled backup power further reduces our customers’ carbon footprint. The discussions we’ve been having with customers throughout development have shown real anticipation for the capabilities of the hybrid PowerBuoy.”

The buoy generates power is generated independently of wave activity which the company believes makes it an ideal solution for powering through extreme weather and heavy seas or in calm, low wave environments, including near-shore and inland bodies of water.