Powering the Blue Economy: Crosscutting Markets

Crosscutting research includes energy storage integration, operational reliability, deployment and maintenance strategies, mooring designs, and more. Crosscutting activities also include creating partnerships that benefit all Powering the Blue Economy (PBE) applications, like supporting the development of incubation and entrepreneurial programs that facilitate pathways to commercialization.

The PBE initiative funds crosscutting research and development to support small marine energy powered systems and to connect end users with technological solutions across the blue economy. These activities include:

Identifying research and development needs through marine energy use case studies
Enabling the adoption of marine energy technologies for a large customer base and blue economy markets
Establishing relationships to encourage entrepreneurial training and incubation of blue economy industries
Forging partnerships with other agencies to enable the uptake of marine energy powered technologies
Supporting foundational and innovative research applicable to multiple blue economy sectors.

Crosscutting Markets

Illustration of other marine energy applications.

Figure 10.1. Marine renewable energy (MRE) applications for electric and hydrogen-fueled marine transportation. | Molly Grear, PNNL

Additional applications for marine energy cover various topics, including electrified and hydrogen-fueled marine transportation, off-grid charging for industrial and consumer applications, ocean pollution cleanup and marine conservation, subsea communications, and offshore data centers. These different applications cover a range of technology readiness levels, from those that are in the conceptual-only stage to others with demonstrated pilot projects and paths to commercialization.

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