NNMREC Summary for Congressman Dave Reichart April 22, 2011 Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center University of Washington

NNMREC National Marine Renewable Energy Centers Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center (HINMREC) University of Hawaii Wave, OTEC Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) Florida Atlantic Univ. Ocean Current, OTEC Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) University of Washington (tidal) Oregon State University (wave) National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)

NNMREC Resource and Site Assessment System Engineering Testing Capabilities Environmental Effects What are the conditions at tidal energy sites? What is the optimal design for tidal devices and arrays? How can the benefits from testing be maximized? How can impacts be mitigated? UW-NNMREC Activities

NNMREC UW-NNMREC Funding  USDOE core funding – UW –NNMREC receives 20% of Center’s budget ($250K / yr) – First 3 yrs funding obligated to date (through 03/14/2012) – Non-federal cost sharing requirement ($265K / yr)  Other USDOE and federal funding – 2009 FOA in cooperation with SnoPUD ($450K over 2 yrs) – studies for PNNL and NOAA ($425K over 3 yrs) – 2009 FOA in cooperation with ORPC ($30K, 3 months) – 2010 Sandia Nat’l Lab ($80K, 15 months) – 2010 CDP ($440K over 2 yrs) – 2011 USDOE/SnoPUD ($950K over 1.5 yrs)  Other funding – Martin Marine Fellowship ($95K over 3 yrs) – Industry (about $375K over 3 yrs)

NNMREC Resource and Site Assessment - Motivation  Site-specific information is needed by multiple parties: Optimal siting  Existing information is insufficient  Approaches to close knowledge gaps are underdeveloped Site Developers Device Developers Regulatory Agencies Design loads Environmental context

NNMREC Resource and Site Assessment - Tools Seabed Instrumentation Sea Spider Tripod Shipboard Survey R/V Jack Robertson Land Observation AIS Ship Tracks

NNMREC Snohomish PUD Partnership Instrumentation Deployments: April ‘09-Present Methodology Development Methodology Implementation Site Data Applied Research

NNMREC Resource and Site Assessment - Modeling Departure from Bi-directional Flow Bidirectional Asymmetric Device Selection and Siting

NNMREC System Engineering – Advanced Modeling Turbine-Wake Interactions Array Optimization Mooring Stability  Develop high-fidelity models to optimize devices and arrays  Address a range of system components

NNMREC System Engineering - Advanced Materials Composite Aging Biofouling Foul Release Coatings Corrosion

NNMREC Testing Capabilities – Mobile Monitoring Water Quality Water Sampler WA Dept. of Ecology partnership Ambient Noise Hydrophones Fish Species Tag Receiver Current Velocity Doppler profiler Harbor Porpoise Presence Specialized Hydrophones Graduate Student

NNMREC Environmental Effects – Evaluation Recording Hydrophone CPod Automatic Identification System Doppler Profiler Data Collection Data Synthesis and Analysis Potential for Behavioral Change Estimated Environmental Effect Species Behavior Estimated Stress

NNMREC Rivers and Constructed Channels  Potential for power generation from in-stream turbines installed in the fast-moving waters downstream from Columbia River dams  Incremental environmental impact should be very small  In-stream turbines for flow control and power generation as potential alternative for energy- dissipating sluice gates

NNMREC Deep Water Offshore Wind  WA and OR: 300 GW resource  Floating platform technology required for deep water  Platforms can be built and systems assembled in WA and OR  Currently installing 2 MW demonstration unit off Portugal  Initial study on environmental impacts and permit completed by UW-NNMREC UW and OSU PIs currently responding to 2 major funding announcements by US DOE Principle Power