Articles about Marine Energy Technology

WPTO hosts 17 teams as part of the second Marine Energy Collegiate Competition and expands STEM for Marine Energy Portal resources.

The Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy now features a centralized search engine for marine energy information, and the team launches a lessons-learned documentation effort.

Seven Ocean Observing Prize competitors were selected for their novel approaches to marine energy-powered systems that seek to enable better prediction of hurricane intensity, which marks the winners’ first step in a three-stage contest.

After customer discovery and analysis stemming from the Powering the Blue Economy report, a national lab team focuses on 10 key research areas that are fundamental challenges for marine energy to integrate into high-priority blue economy applications.

WPTO selected 10 projects to receive funding as part of efforts to support marine energy R&D and testing infrastructure.

Two deployed river hydrokinetic system help power Igiugig, Alaska, simultaneously reducing diesel dependence and supporting a local workforce.

Team conducts in-water demonstrations for a novel “Water Horse” hydrokinetic device that sits above rushing rivers, taking a first step to collect data to analyze its true costs and validate its potential as a reliable, lower-cost source of clean energy.

To support the critical step for industry to model and evaluate systems, a multilab team made significant additions to a marine energy data processing software, called MHKiT, to include functions to download and process new types of data.

With the first stages of directional drilling nearly complete, land-based construction begins on PacWave South, the United States’ first accredited, grid-connected, open-ocean wave energy testing facility.

The newly awarded Atlantic Marine Energy Center will provide research and testing capabilities for marine energy, with the awarded coalition focusing on powering the blue economy.