AHERC Receives DOE Funds

The Energy Department announced September 4th that a new consortium led by Oregon State University, and including the University of Washington and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, will receive up to $4 million in funding to leverage their field-focused R&D capabilities and accelerate the development and deployment of MHK technologies.  

Utilizing the existing resources at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, this consortium of universities will accelerate the development of next-generation wave and tidal energy device arrays. Together, these universities will implement field-focused R&D activities aimed at reducing the technical, economic, and environmental barriers to MHK deployments over a wide range of topic areas identified by the Energy Department. Specific R&D initiatives that will be carried out by these universities include the development of autonomous robotic devices to support MHK operations, array designs for performance enhancements, and the development of standardized approaches for the biological monitoring for MHK projects.

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