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Marine Energy Environmental Toolkit for Permitting and Licensing

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1922645· OSTI ID:1922645
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  1. Kearns & West, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States); Kearns & West
  2. Kearns & West, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
  3. Integral Consulting, Inc., Seattle, WA (United States)
  4. H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos, CA (United States)
  5. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  6. EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  7. Ocean Renewable Power Company, Portland, ME (United States)
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The permitting and licensing process for marine energy in the U.S. could take up to 7 years for even small demonstrations or pilot studies despite existing resources like Tethys, MarineCadstre, and the FERC E-Library. The goal of the Marine Energy Environmental Toolkit Project was to increase regulators, developers, and marine energy innovators’ understanding of potential environmental effects of marine energy conversion devices deployments and provide information to make efficient and effective determinations during permitting and licensing; develop a one-stop shop for existing environmental, spatial, regulatory, and scientific data that allows users to access disparate sources of data through a series of tags and spatial queries. The Toolkit (marineenergy.app) builds upon prior U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) investments by pulling from WPTO-funded and outside resources to facilitate the permitting and licensing process, inform technology developers of required permits, and disseminate the latest knowledge of the environmental effects of these devices to regulators, developers, and marine energy innovators and stakeholders.
Research Organization:
Kearns & West, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
EE0008634
OSTI ID:
1922645
Report Number(s):
DOE-KW-0008634
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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