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July 2013 www.sname.org/sname/mt ADCF: advanced design cross-?ow turbines, used in ORPCs power systems AW-Energy Oy: Finnish company that is developing WaveRoller, a device that uses ocean surge wave energy CAB: Conformity Assessment Board, an independent body within the IEC, responsible for ensuring that standards developed by IEC technical committees are applied fairly and consistently Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project: ORPCs hydrokinetic tidal energy project o the coast of Maine EMEC: European Marine Energy Centre, located in the Orkney Islands in Scotland, which has seven tidal test berths for testing of tidal energy devices ETI: Energy Technologies Institute EXWC: NAVFACs Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center, located in Port Hueneme, California FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission HNMREC: Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission LCOE: levelized cost of energy, denoting the cost of energy generated by disparate sources Magnetostriction: phenomena in which high-magnitude, low-displacement mechanical load changes are converted into magnetic ?ux changes and then electricity for large-scale energy production Yoshio Masuda: former Japanese naval commander who became a pioneer in the development of wave power technology NAVFAC: Naval Facilities Engineering Command NELHA: Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority at Keahole Point on the Kona coast of Hawaii NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act, signed into law in 1970 NREL: National Renewable Energy Laboratory OTEC: ocean thermal energy conversion, a process that takes advantage of temperature dierences between ocean layers to generate electricity PerAWaT: Performance Assessment of Wave and Tidal Array Systems, a WEC tank-testing project commissioned and funded by the Energy Technologies Institute RITE: Verdant Powers Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project site in New York Citys East River Stephen Salter: inventor of the nodding duck? wave energy device SeaGen: a 1 MW free-stream tidal turbine located o the coast of Northern Ireland SNMREC: the Southeast National Marine Renewable Center at Florida Atlantic University StingRAY: Columbia Powers hydrodynamically- optimized WEC, which has a tri-member ?ber- reinforced polymer hull SWTS: shallow water test site TC-114: a technical committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission that develops and maintains technical speci?cations and standards for the MHK sector TidGen: ORPCs power system for tidal and deep river sites, with a rated capacity of 150 kW WEC: wave energy converter Acronyms, names, and terms appearing in this issue $ % 6 ) X Q G H G 3 K ' 6 F K R O D U V K L S D W , Q V W L W X W R 6 X S H U L R U 7 p F Q L F R $ V S D U W R I L W V U H V H D U F K F R R S H U D W L R Q Z L W K W K H &