Carnegie Clean Energy Limited announced that it has extended its Collaboration Agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) The agreement between Carnegie and HPE is for an additional two years, to 15 November 2024. All other terms and conditions of the agreement remain in effect. A key partner since 2020, Hewlett Packard Labs, the exploratory and advanced research group of HPE, and Carnegie have successfully worked on advanced control initiatives related to CETO, which is a wave-energy technology that converts kinetic energy from ocean swell into electrical power. The two organizations have made progress in boosting CETO's performance through the development of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based controller. The work supports Carnegie's efforts to develop controllers that maximise the performance and cost effectiveness of the CETO technology, with the
two companies building on the 20% power gains reached in the earlier phases of the collaboration. Reinforcement learning is an area of artificial intelligence in which a machine learning model is built with the ability to self-learn. The RL controller has the ability to directly learn and apply the optimum response to predicted waves, during operation. Through the continued collaboration, the team will test the Reinforcement Learning (RL) based
Controller in a tank testing campaign at the Cantabria Coastal and Ocean Basin (CCOB) in March 2023. This tank testing campaign is an important activity being delivered as part of CETO Wave Energy Ireland's EuropeWave PCP Phase 2 Project (contract value of EUR 600,000/AUD 890,000). The enhancements are the result of the two companies' combined capabilities ­ Carnegie's wave energy experience and Hewlett Packard Labs' expertise in applying reinforcement learning to real- world problems. HPE has supported and exhibited the RL enhanced CETO technology at international
industry conferences - ISC High Perform ance 2022 in Hamburg, and HPE Discover 2022 in Las Vegas, with encouraging reception.