An Intelligent Adaptable Monitoring Package for Marine Renewable Energy Projects Award Number: DE-EE0006788 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Water Power Program Date: 7/12/2016 Location(s): WA Office(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 20, 2016
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An Intelligent Adaptable Monitoring Package for Marine Renewable Energy Projects
Award Number: DE-EE0006788
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Water Power Program
Date: 7/12/2016
Location(s): WA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
DOE is proposing to authorize the expenditure of federal funding by the University of Washington (UW) to develop and field test an integrated instrumentation package to be used for environmental monitoring at marine and hydrokinetic energy sites. The integrated package is an enhanced version of the Adaptable Monitoring Package (iAMP) being developed by researchers at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center.
This project has three Budget Periods. A NEPA review was previously conducted for BP1 activities (GFO-0006788-001; September 5, 2014) during which UW designed and tested the iAMP system. The iAMP system is an integrated marine environmental monitoring device that incorporates sonar and video cameras. This NEPA review is being conducted for BP2 activities only. There is a Go/No-Go decision point between BP2 and BP3 activities; the specifics for activities proposed for BP3 are not known.