Marine Renewable Energy Development – Oceanographic Measurements to Support an Emerging Low-Carbon Energy Source


Session ID#: 36208

Session Description:
Marine renewable energy is a nascent industry working to establish tidal, wave, ocean current, and ocean thermal energy conversion as new low-carbon energy sources that will help to meet power needs around the world, while mitigating harmful effects of climate change. Preferred areas of the coastal and open ocean for marine renewable energy deployments provide high densities of energy and are, by definition, challenging locations for assessing the physical environment and accompanying biological interactions.  The marine renewable energy community needs the talent, measurement skills, and specialized equipment of the oceanographic community to succeed in characterizing and assessing the most promising deployment locations, the least sensitive biological regions, and the most promising deployment and recovery methods.  This town hall will introduce the oceanographic community to the needs of marine renewable scientists and engineers, in order to entrain their participation in these exciting new investigations.  The US Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office, and their national laboratory and university partners, support the investigations and assessments that assist the marine renewable industry.
Primary Contact:  Andrea E Copping, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Coastal Division, Seattle, WA, United States
Presenters:  Genevra Harker-Klimes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Coastal Division, Seattle, WA, United States, Brian L Polagye, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Mechanical Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and William McShane, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Cross-Topics:
  • EP - Ecology and Physical Interactions
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • PO - Physical Oceanography: Other
 

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