Public dossier · relocatable offshore infrastructure
WaveMax LS™ Low-Cost Offshore Power Platform
A modular, floating variant of the WaveMax architecture designed for lower CAPEX deployment, rapid relocation, and resilient coastal energy where fixed infrastructure is too slow, too costly, or too exposed to risk.
Why LS matters
For hyperscalers, defense users, island grids, and coastal governments, the bottleneck is not only clean generation. It is deployable, resilient, financeable infrastructure that can move when risk changes.
Floating structure before fixed civil works
LS reduces early dependence on heavy pile foundations and site-specific civil works, making it attractive for prototype validation, staged deployment, and markets where permanent infrastructure is difficult to finance.
The asset can be redeployed
Relocatability changes the investment profile. A movable offshore energy asset is less exposed to single-site political, payment, permitting, or security risk than a fully fixed coastal plant.
Modular redundancy by design
The reference block uses multiple submodules, distributed accumulators, and independent generator trains so that maintenance or localized failure can degrade capacity without disabling the entire system.
Architecture overview
The core design principle is a single frontal capture line: Teardrop and Potential Floaters receive the same incident wave front without wave-shadow losses, while the floating platform stays behind the capture zone.
Economic thesis: lower-cost deployment with higher optionality
WaveMax LS is designed as a bridge between prototype validation and scalable offshore deployment. The value proposition is not merely cents per kilowatt-hour; it is the combination of renewable marine energy, hydraulic smoothing, modular maintenance, and the ability to relocate the asset rather than abandon it when conditions change.
Modular manufacturing and staged scale-up
Six 50 m submodules form a 300 m block. This architecture supports phased fabrication, transport, testing, and financing rather than requiring one large permanent construction event.
Serviceable from the surface
Equipment is concentrated on floating submodules, with hydraulic and electrical systems accessible from the platform. This can reduce dependence on complex underwater intervention compared with fully submerged fixed systems.
Mobility as risk management
In markets where payment risk, security risk, permitting risk, or infrastructure delays can change quickly, a relocatable asset offers strategic value beyond the energy it produces.
Defense and naval relevance
For Navy, coast guard, island-base, and expeditionary users, the concept is a resilient offshore energy layer that can reduce dependence on vulnerable terrestrial grid connections or fuel logistics.
Coastal power where grid access is constrained
LS could support coastal installations, port-adjacent facilities, and mission loads that benefit from local marine energy and modular redundancy.
Move when conditions change
A relocatable platform can be withdrawn, repositioned, or redeployed, giving operators more flexibility than fixed infrastructure in politically or physically insecure locations.
AI-managed control layer
The AI controller coordinates ballast, hydraulic pressure, generator dispatch, thermal monitoring, and safety transitions, supporting remote operation and reduced staffing.
Key system features
Public-level technical summary based on the current WaveMax LS architectural concept.
Prototype pathway
The public pathway should emphasize U.S. validation first, with Oregon as the preferred technical prototype environment.
Numerical modeling
Hydrodynamic response, mooring behavior, PTO loading, capture width, survivability, and maintenance envelopes.
Scale prototype
Wave-tank or nearshore testing with one or more submodules to validate control logic, hydraulic smoothing, and float behavior.
300 m demonstrator
U.S. coastal pilot for energy, thermal, and optional compute-load validation under a JDA or strategic development agreement.
NDA access for technical review
This public dossier intentionally omits proprietary mechanical details, control algorithms, detailed cost models, and patent-sensitive implementation parameters. Full technical review can be provided under NDA for strategic partners, hyperscalers, defense evaluators, research facilities, and infrastructure investors.