Below are news updates about hydropower and marine energy technologies from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Water Power Technologies Office, and other federal agencies.
January 16, 2024
Funding Notice: Marine Energy University Foundational R&D
$14.5 million funding opportunity to support foundational marine and ocean renewable energy research and development at domestic institutions of higher education.
January 9, 2024
Ripple Effect: Why Jen Trimble Thinks You Should Know All About Water Power
Jen Trimble's desire to protect people and serve a bigger picture has led her from the U.S. Army to public works in Texas to her current role: operations manager for the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office.
November 29, 2023
Small Business Grant Program Helps Entrepreneurs Advance Water Power Initiatives
The Water Power Technologies Office funds projects in a range of topics through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. Learn about recent projects and the Phase I topics for Fiscal Year 2024.
November 17, 2023
Water Power Technologies Office Announces Nearly $1.8 Million for Continuing Marine Energy Projects at U.S. National Laboratories
The Water Power Technologies Office announced nearly $1.8 million for nine projects to further marine energy research and development at DOE’s national laboratories.
November 16, 2023
Funding Notice: Strategies to Increase Hydropower Flexibility
$9.5 million funding opportunity to strengthen hydropower's ability to support an electric grid with an increasing amount of variable renewable energy resources.
November 15, 2023
Reflecting on Water Power Competitions and Research at Clean Currents
During the Clean Currents conference, the Water Power Technologies Office kicked off the Hydropower Collegiate Competition, hosted competitors for the H2Os Prize, featured talks from national laboratory researchers at the DOE booth, and more.
November 13, 2023
DOE Launches $1.7 Million Prize to Power Offshore Economy with Marine Energy
DOE launched the Powering the Blue Economy™: Power at Sea Prize , which will award up to $1.7 million to competitors to advance technologies that use marine energy to power ocean-based activities
November 8, 2023
Ripple Effect: Chicken Coops and Magazines Nudged Two Hydropower Experts Into STEM; Now, They Hope to Bring in a New Generation
In honor of National STEM Day, Argonne National Laboratory’s Jonghwan Kwon and Quentin Ploussard share why they chose to pursue STEM careers and their work with high school students to encourage interest in hydropower.
November 7, 2023
DOE Announces Winners in First Round of Prize Focused on Novel Wave Energy Technologies
Nineteen teams split $285,000 in Phase I of the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize for their distributed embedded energy converter technology concepts to harness and convert the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.
November 6, 2023
Unlocking Clean Energy Potential with Deployable, Scalable Hydropower
Learn how Emrgy Inc. is harnessing power from existing waterways using a technology advanced with support from the U.S. Department of Energy.