In February 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office held its Peer Review Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of the meetings was to evaluate DOE-funded water power research and development projects for contributions to DOE’s mission and goals, and to assess progress made against stated objectives.
Site and Resource Characterization
- Site and Resource Characterization Overview
Joel Cline, U.S. DOE - National Wave Energy Resource Refinement Using 30-year Hindcast
George Scott, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Wave Resource Model Integration
Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Model Validation and Site Characterization for Early Deployment Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Sites and Establishment of Wave Classification Scheme
Levi Kilcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Wave Environmental Characterization at Wave Test Sites
Vincent Neary, Sandia National Laboratories - Department of Defense Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Deployment Opportunity Identification
Robi Robichaud, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Metocean Data-use, Sources, and Instrumentation
Senu Sirnivas, NREL
Environmental Research
- Overview of Environmental Research
Hoyt Battey, U.S. Department of Energy - Improvements to Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Models for Environmental Prediction
Jesse Roberts, Sandia National Laboratories - Evaluating Potential for Impacts from Seal Collisions with Tidal Turbines
Andrea Copping, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Acoustics Exposure Experimentation for Sensitive Fish Species
Mark Bevelhimer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Interactions of Aquatic Animals with the ORPC OCGen in Cobscook Bay, Maine
Gayle Zydlewski, University of Maine - Informing a Tidal Turbine Strike Probability Model through Characterization of Fish Behavioral Response using Multibeam Sonar Output
Mark Bevelhimer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Current Ability to Assess Impacts of Electro Magnetic Fields Associated with Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technologies on Marine Fishes in Hawaii
Jeremy Claisse, Vantuna Research Group - Evaluating the Potential for Marine and Hydrokinetic Devices to Act as Artificial Reefs or Fish Aggregating Devices
Sharon Kramer, H.T. Harvey and Associates - Effects of EMF Emissions from Cables and Junction Boxes on Marine Species
Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University - Assessment of Potential Impact of Electromagnetic Fields from Undersea Cable on Migratory Fish Behavior z
Ximena Vergara, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. - Marine Mammal Behavioral Response to Marine Energy Converter Sound
Brian Polagye, University of Washington - Annex IV and Tethys: International Environmental Data Sharing Initiative
Andrea Copping, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Regulator Trainings
Ian Baring Gould, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Environmental Monitoring Instrumentation Research
- Overview of Environmental Monitoring Instrumentation Research
Samantha Eaves, U.S. DOE - Automatic Optical Detection and Classification of Marine Animals around Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Converters using Machine Vision
- Steven Brunton, University of Washington
- Nekton Interaction Monitoring System
Kenneth Ham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Unobtrusive Multi-static Serial LiDAR Imager (UMSLI) for Wide-area Surveillance and Identification of Marine Life at Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Installations
Fraser Dalgleish, Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees - An Intelligent Adaptable Monitoring Package for Marine Renewable Energy
Brian Polagye, University of Washington - Triton Initiative
Genevra Harker-Klimes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - FY16 FOA Awards: Innovation, Testing and Validation of Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Environmental Monitoring Instrumentation
Samantha Eaves, U.S. Department of Energy
Market and Industry Development, Analysis, and Data Dissemination
- Overview of Market and Industry Development, Analysis, and Data Dissemination
Alison LaBonte, U.S. Department of Energy - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Manufacturing and Supply Chain Needs Assessment
Jason Cotrell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Risk Management Framework
Jochem Weber, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) Analysis
Scott Jenne, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Data Repository and Instrumentation Database
Rick Driscoll, National Renewable Energy Laboratory