Powering the Blue Economy

The goal of our ‘Pow­er­ing the Blue Econ­o­my’ project is to assess the opti­mal grid inte­gra­tion of off­shore renew­able ener­gy tech­nolo­gies (wave, tidal, wind) and their poten­tial for advanc­ing the blue econ­o­my. Through this project, our team is holis­ti­cal­ly eval­u­at­ing wave ener­gy and wind-wave co-locat­ed ener­gy in terms of the near-term and long-term mar­ket poten­tial and val­ue to the elec­tri­cal grid and blue econ­o­my, as defined by the U.S. Depart­ment of Energy’s Water Pow­er Tech­nolo­gies Office report: Pow­er­ing the Blue Econ­o­my (PBE), and dis­sem­i­nat­ing this infor­ma­tion wide­ly to stream­line device design and deploy­ment strategies.

Katy Zhen, 2025 Amer­i­can Fish­eries Soci­ety Hut­ton Schol­ar and RAEL Vis­it­ing Stu­dent, wrote a blog series doc­u­ment­ing her sum­mer work­ing on this project. You can read her work here.

Katy Zhen