Data Access and Analysis Tools

NREL, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) national lab team, develops online resources and data tools that leverage ongoing projects.

These projects span DOE's portfolio of activities from searchable knowledge bases to focused data analysis tools that adhere to international standards.

PRIMRE: Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy

The Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE), hosted on DOE's OpenEI website, provides broad access to information on engineering and technologies, resource characterization, device performance, and environmental effects of marine renewable energy projects.

PRIMRE facilitates the commercial development of the marine energy industry by making information accessible and discoverable, integrating existing databases and information portals in the marine energy space, and developing standards and guidelines to promote collaboration within the industry.

PRIMRE provides consistent, easy access to information to help reduce the duplication of effort and to enable the marine energy community to build upon the successes of others to innovate and advance the adoption of marine energy technologies.

MHKDR: Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository

Found on DOE's OpenEI site, the Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR) hosts all MHK-related data generated from research projects and programs funded by DOE's Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). It is home to more than 1,800 resources and more than 520 GB of data. Data on the MHKDR are downloaded more than 700 times per month by a variety of institutions, including academia, industry, national labs, and government agencies.

The MHKDR protects DOE's investment in research and development by preserving, providing access to, and disseminating data and findings from WPTO-funded projects to the greater MHK scientific community, industry, academia, and others. With this collection of knowledge and experience, users can build upon prior successes, avoid duplication of effort, and accelerate the rate of innovation in the MHK sector.

Tethys

Found on Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's site, Tethys hosts information and resources on the environmental effects of marine and wind energy development, including thousands of documents, educational resources, and online tools. Tethys also serves as the outreach and engagement platform for the international Ocean Energy Systems Environmental initiative. For more information on Tethys, check out the Tethys fact sheet.

Tethys Engineering

Also on on Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's site, Tethys Engineering hosts thousands of documents on the technical and engineering aspects of marine energy research and development, such as testing and design, power take-off systems, and cost assessments. Tethys Engineering also hosts a free-use photo library with hundreds of marine energy device photos. For more information on Tethys Engineering, check out the Tethys Engineering fact sheet.

Telesto

Found on DOE's OpenEI site, Telesto contains open-source wiki pages and structured databases that provide information about the development life cycle of marine energy, including planning, designing and building, testing, deploying, and decommissioning. Telesto also contains information on lessons learned, metrics, economics, standards, and compliance.

Marine Energy Atlas

Hosted on PRIMRE, the Marine Energy Atlas is an interactive mapping tool developed to explore potential for marine and hydrokinetic resources. The atlas depicts and maps U.S. wave energy, tidal, ocean, ocean thermal, and riverine current resources in the United States. Users can explore several variables in each of these mapped resource types using data layers.

Marine Energy Software

Hosted on PRIMRE, Marine Energy Software is a collection of open-source and commercial software relevant to marine energy research and development. Users can sort available software packages by different features, view recent activity on their favorite repositories, discover new ones, and register their own.

MHKiT

MHKiT is a set of toolboxes on GitHub with functions that are intended to supplement the existing Python and MATLAB^® software languages and other public code repositories (e.g., WAFO, Pecos). The data processing and visualization toolboxes in MHKiT fill gaps in the marine energy community where software is not available or where existing code does not meet verification requirements. The software is in its third release, leveraging code developed at the national labs, and includes toolboxes that are based on International Electrotechnical Commission technical specifications and other guidelines for power performance, power quality, mechanical loads, resource assessments, and data quality control.

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