NNMREC selects Newport as home of Pacific Marine Energy Center
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, or NNMREC, which is based at Oregon State University, has chosen Newport, Ore., as the future site of the first utility-scale,...
View ArticleCongressman Kurt Schrader (OR) Applauds Newport As Future Wave Energy Test...
WASHINGTON — Congressman Schrader (D-OR) today applauded the Northwest National Marine Energy Center (NNMREC), which is based at Oregon State University, for its selection of the coastal town of...
View ArticleA Wave Energy Partnership
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Oregon State University Advantage.) Harnessing Wave Power through a Winning University-Industry Partnership At Oregon State University’s O.H. Hinsdale...
View ArticleTuba Ozkan-Haller – Science of Rip Currents article
Nice article from the Pacific Standard featuring NNMREC PI Tuba Ozkan-Haller : http://www.psmag.com/environment/how-to-detect-dangerous-rip-currents-riptide-52211/ The post Tuba Ozkan-Haller – Science...
View ArticleSean Casey’s Postcard from DC
As the plane swooped low over the Potomac in our final descent, we joked of being a modern day George Washington though in an airplane, not a wooden dingy. In some respects though, revolution was in...
View ArticleSummer Test Update
It’s summer in Oregon, the weather’s beautiful, and what does that mean at NNMREC? Ocean Sentinel, our mobile ocean test buoy is in the PMEC-NETS in Newport, characterizing wave energy buoys. But...
View ArticleNNMREC Researchers Assist Wind Energy Project Off Oregon Coast
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the upcoming installation of five Siemens six-megawatt direct-drive wind turbines off Oregon’s coast, by Principle Power. Environmental characterization of...
View ArticleNNMREC shares vision with Newport, OR, community
A local newspaper, the Lincoln County Dispatch, has published an excellent wrap-up of NNMREC’s past and future (projected) as it was explained by NNMREC Director Belinda Batten (pictured below) to a...
View ArticleBOEM Finds No Competitive Interest for Requested Lease
The Oregon Coast Daily News is one outlet helping to circulate these good tidings… The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced its next step toward issuing a lease to NNMREC of federal...
View ArticleRep. Bonamici works to restore lost wave energy funds
The Portland Business Journal reports… A wave energy amendment sponsored by an Oregon Congressional rep has passed through the House. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a Portland Democrat, was one of a handful of...
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