Water Power for a Clean Energy Future. This EERE document describes some of the accomplishments of the Department of Energy Water Power Program, and how those accomplishments are supporting the advancement of renewable energy generated using water power. March 2012
"Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource" by Paul T. Jacobson, Ph.D., Electric Power Research Institute, and George Hagerman, Virginia Tech.
"Assessment of Energy Production Potential from Tidal Streams in the United States" by Kevin A. Haas Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) is a partnership between Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Washington (UW). OSU focuses on wave energy. UW focuses on tidal energy. Both universities collaborate with each other and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on research, education, outreach, and engagement. NNMREC, established in 2008, is one of three United States Department of Energy National Marine Renewable Energy Centers; the others are the Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center and the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center.
IEA - Renewable Energy Project Deployment > Offshore Renewable Energy project. The overall objective of the project was to assist policy makers and project developers in a better understanding of the specifics of offshore renewable energy and to give them practical guidelines in how to foster their deployment. This webpage offers documents developed under this project.
Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC): The Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition is the only national trade association exclusively dedicated to promoting marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies from clean, renewable ocean resources. Our organization embraces a wide range of renewable technologies, including wave, tidal, current, offshore wind, ocean thermal, marine biomass and all other technologies that utilize renewable resources from oceans, tidal areas and other unimpounded water bodies to produce electricity, desalinized water, hydrogen, mariculture and other by products. You can sign up to receive their newsletter here.
EPRI Ocean Energy Webpage: EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) provides a wealth of information on their work with wave, tidal, and in-stream energy technologies. Also, their assessment of offshore wave energy conversion devices is available here.
Ocean Energy Council (OEC): The Ocean Energy Council was (originally) incorporated in Washington, D.C. in 1979 as an advocacy body favoring the development and implementation of ocean energy. It was formed to formalize a needed communicative and representative vehicle of the international ocean energy community. The original OEC ceased operation in 1982. EnergyOcean 2004 held in June in Florida demonstrated a new focus on tapping earth's most abundant energy source: the oceans. The time was ripe to revive the Ocean Energy Council, which was incorporated in December, 2004. The OEC's main objective iso improve public knowledge and acceptance of Ocean Energy as a viable resource with its own special advantages, ranking with oil, natural gas nuclear power, coal and direct solar applications in contributing to the national and international energy supply.
