Marine Energy News

The Electric Power Institute (EPRI) has successfully automated identification processes for young American eel tracked with multi-beam sonar.

WPTO supported the creation of PRIMRE, a Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy.

In 2020, Verdant Power deployed their fifth generation Free Flow System turbines with their new TriFrame™ mount in New York’s East River.

In 2019, NREL completed a multi-year system design and validation project with Columbia Power using the 5-megawatt dynamometer.

In 2019, the Alaskan village of Igiugig worked with Ocean Renewable Power Company to deploy the RivGen® Power System.

In 2020, WPTO’s multi-lab resource characterization project released the highest resolution, most comprehensive wave dataset publicly available.

From 2014 to 2020, Sandia National Labs and MRE developer Re Vision Consulting investigated advanced controls techniques in wave energy systems.

In September 2020, on behalf of the International Energy Agency’s OES collaborative, PNNL released the 2020 State of the Science Report.

The PNNL-led Triton Initiative is supporting the development of more precise and cost-effective marine energy environmental monitoring technologies.

Oregon State University has completed the design phase of PacWave South, a grid-connected and pre-permitted wave energy test facility.