Summary for Congressman Dave Reichart April 22, 2011

1. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center University of Washington http://depts.washington.edu/nnmrec/ Summary for Congressman Dave Reichart April 22, 2011

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

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

4. 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) • 2009-11 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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 UW and OSU PIs currently responding to 2 major funding announcements by US DOE Principle Power • Currently installing 2 MW demonstration unit off Portugal • Initial study on environmental impacts and permit completed by UW-NNMREC