Categorical Exclusion Determinations: B3.6

Funding will support the project team's small-scale research and development of a technology approach to large-scale, dynamic energy transport by using electrochemical processes and existing logistics infrastructure by leveraging globally abundant, non-critical metals to serve as energy carriers and innovative metal-air fuel cells and low temperature metal electrolyzers for energy conversion.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET) to administer the Testing and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to prototype and characterize the performance of a novel current energy conversion device called MARINER, designed to harness power from different oceanic current sites.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Cube Yadkin Generation, LLC (New London, NC) to develop and demonstrate an integrated control solution for a photovoltaic (PV) battery energy storage system (BESS) within the existing PV-Hydro Hybrid System at the Tuckertown Hydropower Facility ("Tuckertown", New London, NC) to create a PV-BESS-Hydro tri-hybrid system.