The U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office Powering the Blue Economy™ initiative is a meaningful first step toward protecting, understanding, and leveraging the immense power and promise of the oceans to help us achieve our collective economic, social, and environmental goals. Collaboration and engagement are central to efforts supporting communities and marine life while sustainably providing power to the blue economy.
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January 21, 2022
Ocean Observing Prize Competitors Awarded Additional Resources
WPTO and NOAA awarded additional support to the six teams competing in the BUILD Contest of the Ocean Observing Prize, which challenges innovators to integrate marine renewable energy with ocean observation platforms.
January 19, 2022
Creating a Community To Support Inventors
WPTO appreciates current sponsors’ support for the Waves to Water Prize and invites additional organizations to consider getting involved.
January 11, 2022
DOE Opens Applications for Remote, Island, and Islanded Communities Seeking Technical Assistance for Energy Transition Planning
DOE and NREL today announced that the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project is accepting applications from remote, island, and islanded communities for technical assistance to transform their energy systems and increase energy resilience.
August 18, 2021
WPTO-NOAA Ocean Observing Prize Competitors to Make a SPLASH in the Olympic Peninsula
This joint prize competition between WPTO and NOAA’s Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Office seeks to develop new technologies that can help fill the data gaps making it difficult to realize the full potential of the Blue Economy.
June 15, 2021
National Ocean Month 2021: Sustaining Our Watery World
WPTO is working harder to protect, understand, and leverage the immense power and promise of the ocean.
June 8, 2021
The Ripple Effect of Water Power Changemakers
Nontraditional thinking empowers today's marine industry disrupters.
May 20, 2021
DOE Announces the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Contenders
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced the 17 teams chosen to participate in the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition: Powering the Blue Economy™.
April 30, 2021
2021 Marine Energy Collegiate Competitors Help Chart the Blue Economy Course
EERE announced the winning teams at the MECC award ceremony on April 29.
April 20, 2021
WPTO Supports Effort to Help Islands and Remote Communities Develop and Sustain Reliable, Resilient Energy Systems
To help remote communities identify, measure, and develop local clean energy resources, DOE has announced the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP).
April 19, 2021
DOE and NOAA Announce Winners of the Ocean Observing Prize DESIGN Contest; Launch BUILD Contest
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.