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HERO WEC 2024 - Electrical Configuration Deployment Data

Jenne, Scott·Panzarella, Justin (ORCID:0009000429383022)·Simms, Andrew (ORCID:0009000226072603)·Bharath, Aidan·Raye, Rob·Nichols, Casey·Murphy, Mark·Swartz, Kyle·McGilton, Ben·Schnabel, Alec·Candon, Charles
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The following submission includes raw and processed electrical configuration deployment data from the in water deployment of NREL's Hydraulic and Electric Reverse Osmosis Wave Energy Converter (HERO WEC), in the form of parquet files, TDMS files, CSV files, bag files, and MATLAB workspaces. This dataset was collected in April 2024 at the Jennette's pier test site in North Carolina. Raw data as TDMS, CSV, and bag files are provided here alongside processed data in the form of MATLAB workspaces and Parquet files. This dataset includes the Python code used to process the data and MATLAB scripts to visualize the processed data. All data types, calculations, and processing is described in the included "Data Descriptions" document. All files in this dataset are described in detail in the included README. This data set has been developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Technologies Office.

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Jenne, Scott, Panzarella, Justin (ORCID:0009000429383022), Simms, Andrew (ORCID:0009000226072603), Bharath, Aidan, Raye, Rob, Nichols, Casey, Murphy, Mark, Swartz, Kyle, McGilton, Ben, Schnabel, Alec, Candon, Charles. 2024-04-18. HERO WEC 2024 - Electrical Configuration Deployment Data. https://doi.org/10.15473/2417634

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