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LEAP Autonomous PowerBuoy, New Jersey

LEAP Autonomous PowerBuoy,
New Jersey

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OPT’s latest deployment is an autonomous PowerBuoy® designed and manufactured by OPT under the US Navy’s Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program for coastal security and maritime surveillance. The LEAP PowerBuoy structure, incorporating a unique power take-off and on-board energy storage system, is significantly smaller and more compact than the Company’s standard utility PowerBuoy. It provides persistent, off-grid clean energy in remote ocean locations for a wide variety of maritime security and monitoring applications.





US Coast Guard Vessel Deploying
LEAP PowerBuoy

Objective of the Project:
The LEAP system was deployed on August 11, 2011 by a US Coast Guard vessel and is being ocean-tested approximately 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey. It is integrated with the Rutgers University-operated, land-based radar network that provides ocean current mapping data for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and US Coast Guard search and rescue operations. The ocean test of the LEAP vessel detection system will therefore demonstrate dual-use capability of the radar network and verify OPT’s technology as a persistent power source for systems requiring remote power at sea.

Acknowledgements

Ocean Power Technologies gratefully acknowledges the US Navy for their continued support, technical expertise, and assistance in the development of this LEAP system; the US Coast Guard for their marine operations assistance; and the New Jersey Congressional delegation in bringing this program to fruition.