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 US 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.
