Name: Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, OR - Final Technical Report & Appendices
Creator: Department of Energy

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In 2008, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Wind and Water Power Program issued a funding opportunity announcement to establish university-led National Marine Renewable Energy Centers. Oregon State University and the University of Washington combined their capabilities in wave and tidal energy to establish the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, or NNMREC. NNMREC's scope included research and testing in the following topic areas: - Advanced Wave Forecasting Technologies; - Device and Array Optimization; - Integrated and Standardized Test Facility Development; - Investigate the Compatibility of Marine Energy Technologies with Environment, Fisheries and other Marine Resources; - Increased Reliability and Survivability of Marine Energy Systems; - Collaboration/Optimization with Marine Renewable and Other Renewable Energy Resources. To support the last topic, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was brought onto the team, particularly to assist with testing protocols, grid integration, and testing instrumentation. NNMREC's mission is to facilitate the development of marine energy technology, to inform regulatory and policy decisions, and to close key gaps in scientific understanding with a focus on workforce development. In this, NNMREC achieves DOE's goals and objectives and remains aligned with the research and educational mission of universities. In 2012, DOE provided NNMREC an opportunity to propose an additional effort to begin work on a utility scale, grid connected wave energy test facility. That project, initially referred to as the Pacific Marine Energy Center, is now referred to as the Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site (PMEC-SETS) and involves work directly toward establishing the facility, which will be in Newport Oregon, as well as supporting instrumentation for wave energy converter testing. This report contains a breakdown per subtask of the funded project. Under each subtask, the following are presented and discussed where appropriate: the initial objective or hypothesis; an overview of accomplishments and approaches used; any problems encountered or departures from planned methodology over the life of the project; impacts of the problems or rescoping of the project; how accomplishments compared with original project goals; and deliverables under the subtasks. Products and models developed under the award are also included.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
	33	Final Technical Report for the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center Project. Details goals and objectives of research, products developed, and models developed.	https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/135/NNMREC_GO18179_Final_Report_06302016.pdf
	33	Appendices to the Final Technical Report for the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center Project. Includes detailed information about advanced wave forecasting technologies, device and arrays optimization, collaboration/optimization with marine renewable and other renewable energy sources, integrated and standardized test facility development, investigation of the compatibility of marine technologies with environment, fisheries, and other marine resources, increased reliability and survivability of marine power technologies, site selection and outreach, engineering studies and underlying analysis, permitting, and critical infrastructure.	https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/135/NNMREC_GO18179_Final_Report_Appendices_06302016.pdf

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