Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center

07/02/2025

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/

06/09/2025

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

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.

03/18/2025

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

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.

10/29/2024

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.

10/29/2024

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

A Q&A with Gabriel Alsenas, director of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University.

07/28/2023

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

DOE announced nearly $10 million for seven innovative projects that will accelerate development and testing of marine energy technologies

03/04/2022

Designated by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) as one of four national marine renewable energy centers, Florida Atlantic University’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) has announced expansion plans later this year that will include new university partnerships, capabilities and opportunities. ,

FAU’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center has announced expansion plans later this year that will include new university partnerships, capabilities and opportunities.

02/17/2022

Apply Now! Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Renewable Energy Florida Atlantic University FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Application deadline: Feb. 24, 2022
Applicants will be notified of acceptance: On or before Mar. 2, 2022
Start date: May 31, 2022 (subject to change)
End date: Aug. 5, 2022 (subject to change
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01/27/2022

Multi-national corporation IDOM, in collaboration with U.S. partners, is seeking feedback from tidal energy industry on the optimal design of a mobile test vessel to ensure its capabilities provide best support for the scope of tidal energy turbine testing.

01/27/2022

industry help needed! RFI issued by IDOM and
Florida Atlantic University Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center for new U.S. Department of Energy/ U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy project to build a Mobile Test Vessel. Help us build a platform that best suits industry needs! Responses due Feb 18.

10/20/2021

Can Florida be a Global Leader in Renewables? FAU Division of Research"Virtual Research in Action" public seminar series to feature Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center Director Nov. 4, 1-2 pm EST. Florida Atlantic University FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

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