Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Utilizing deep learning techniques and data visualization to enable online marine energy device health monitoring. We're reducing O&M requirements to drive down marine energy project costs.

Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI)
Ocean Power Technologies

Florida Atlantic University
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science

https://oesi.tamu.edu/cycle-ii-awards-announcement/

Ocean currents can generate electricity, and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest.

New research has found that the eastern and south-eastern coasts of Africa have currents that put them among the world’s top potential locations for ocean energy production.



Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science

The Conversation Africa

Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest Some of the fastest ocean currents in the world have been discovered off South Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar. These can be used to generate energy.

Using more than 30 years of measured data from NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP), a unique study from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University provides the most comprehensive global assessment of ocean current energy to date. And there’s great news for Southeast Florida.

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/global-ocean-energy-production.php

Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center
FPL Center for Intelligent Energy Technologies (InETech)
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University

Top Locations for Ocean Energy Production Worldwide Revealed A unique FAU engineering study is the first to evaluate the best locations for ocean current energy production globally based on actual data and there’s great news for Florida’s East coast and South Africa.

Florida Atlantic University Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Test Offshore Ocean Current Energy.

Imagine harnessing the power of ocean currents to generate clean, renewable energy right off the coast of Southeast Florida. Florida Atlantic University’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the United States Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to enable the commercial readiness of ocean energy technologies.

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/doe-ocean-current-energy-grant.php

Florida Atlantic University
Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center
City of Lake Worth Beach
European Marine Energy Centre - EMEC
IDOM
3U Technologies
48 North Solutions, Inc.
Braid Theory, Inc.

SNMREC Director Gabriel Alsenas sat with Megan Mascheri of Florida Atlantic University's Center for Environmental Studies to discuss the potential of producing energy from currents and other ocean resources.

FAU Center for Environmental Studies
Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center

‘We’re tapping into the natural environment’ — A Q&A on the potential of producing energy from currents and other ocean resources | The Invading Sea A Q&A with Gabriel Alsenas, director of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/us-department-energy-invests-nearly-10-million-advance-marine-energy

Florida Atlantic University's Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center was selected to evaluate the feasibility of establishing an ocean current testing facility to share testing costs across many developers and reduce barriers to testing. This project will assess the feasibility of establishing an ocean current test facility off the coast of Palm Beach County, Florida. This facility would provide grid-connected technology testing for current energy converters to de-risk and accelerate systems to commercial readiness. The feasibility assessment will include a preliminary analysis of infrastructure needs, coordination with regulatory agencies and stakeholders to develop an initial regulatory and permitting roadmap, and a preliminary economic impact assessment.

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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

U.S. Department of Energy Invests Nearly $10 Million to Advance Marine Energy DOE announced nearly $10 million for seven innovative projects that will accelerate development and testing of marine energy technologies