Happy Tuesday! We like to hear about interesting Energy topics and here’s one we don’t hear about much: Marine Energy!
Did anyone
happen to read the EERE News Newsletter on February 6, 2024, they
published the DOE’s press release titled, “Biden-Harris Administration Invests
Nearly $16 Million to Advance Marine Energy in the U.S”? In the article, it spoke on the subject of marine
energy in which tidal energy and community-led river current energy research will
be receiving money from Department of Energy (DOE) and the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law. The DOE made
a statement in regard to awarding investments for two marine energy projects which
are located on the East and West Coast of the US will use the tides to make
energy and they will be having $6 million to help them expand on what we know
about tidal energy as well as make an experimental program to hopefully be the advancement
we need to make this kind of power commercial scale. The two awardees are ORCAS Power and Light Cooperative
(OPALCO) located in Eastsound, Washington, and ORPC located in Portland, Maine
will hopefully make somewhere between 1 to 5 megawatts of power with marine
energy. The river project picked will
receive $9.5 million and is guided by University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power and community-led
current energy research and development project in the Yukon River at Galena,
Alaska, and it will show how river current energy may possibly be used for hard-to-reach
communities who use microgrids. These
monies are the beginning of a five-phase investment plan which will have a total
$35 million available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It will be interesting to see what they can
accomplish with the additional funds! If
you would like to read more of EERE Newsletter’s DOE Announcement, please
click the link: Biden-Harris Administration Invests Nearly $16 Million to Advance Marine Energy in the U.S.| Department of Energy.
If you would
like to learn more about the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable
Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office, please click the link: Water Power Technologies Office | Department of Energy.
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like help in looking into how to move your liquids and use renewables to help
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We hope you have a wonderful evening!