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Below are stories about marine energy featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office.
DOE and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are pleased to announce 7 winners of the DESIGN Contest, the first of three contests in the Powering the Blue Economy™: Ocean Observing Prize DEVELOP Competition.
WPTO announces $7.1M awarded to 7 projects across 5 DOE national labs in support of advancing marine energy technologies.
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) will receive $3,615,260 to build, test, and operate a modular current energy converter (CEC).
Marine energy’s potential is as vast as the ocean itself.
Letter from the Water Power Technologies Office Director, Alejandro Moreno
In 2020, NREL released new STEM and workforce development portals for both marine energy and hydropower.
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.