The Energy Department’s Water Power Program is seeking feedback from the MHK industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders regarding the Program’s activities and priorities in MHK.
Water Power Technologies Office
February 12, 2015
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The Energy Department’s Water Power Program is seeking feedback from the marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders regarding the Program’s activities and priorities in MHK. Feedback will inform the Program’s future strategies and priorities for advancing MHK technologies and accelerating MHK market development.
To advance the development and deployment of innovative MHK devices and systems, the Water Power Program has invested in a broad portfolio of technology and market acceleration research. Technology investments focus on driving innovation, compressing the development cycle, and demonstrating technical readiness and performance. Additionally, the Program works to ensure that a testing infrastructure is in place to accelerate MHK technology commercialization. The Program’s investments in market acceleration focus on reducing environmental uncertainties and other deployment barriers to MHK technology deployment and assessing the resource potential of MHK energy.
To learn more about specific MHK research and development activities or projects that the Water Power Program is currently funding, please review presentations from the 2014 Water Power Program Peer Review and the Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Energy Congressional Budget Request.
Through this Request for Information, the Water Power Program is seeking feedback regarding the following key Program activity areas in MHK:
- Technology Advancement and Demonstration
- Testing Infrastructure And Instrumentation
- Environmental Research And Risk Mitigation
- Resource Characterization
- Crosscutting / Out of the Box / Other
Responses to this Request for Information are due by March 20, 2015.
Read the full Request for Information on the EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange.
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