Congratulations to the winners of the first phase of the Power at Sea Prize! The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) today announced 20 CONCEPT Phase winners, who were each awarded $10,000 in cash prizes and will now be eligible to compete in the second phase, DEVELOP. The winning submissions showcased a wide range of innovative concepts that leverage marine energy to power ocean-based activities. Read the full announcement from WPTO.
The winning teams are as follows (in alphabetical order):
- AquaSync (Ann Arbor, MI)
- BlueBio&Beyond (Hoboken, NJ)
- Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering (San Luis Obispo, CA)
- Changzheng Huang (Irvine, CA)
- E-Wave Technologies (Hoboken, NJ)
- IMTAqua (Ithaca, NY)
- OceaniCal (Berkeley, CA)
- ODU Ocean Wave Energy (Norfolk, Virginia)
- OffshoreLink (Hoboken, NJ)
- Oscilla Power Inc. (Seattle, WA)
- Pittsburgh Coastal Energy (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Poseidon's Kite (Keswick, VA)
- SEAquestration Team (Ithaca, NY)
- Seatrec, Inc. (Vista, CA)
- Sperra (Boulder, CO)
- Streaming Energy (Wendell, NC)
- Team Michigan Tech (Houghton, MI)
- Wave Water Works (Farmington Hills, MI)
- WaveRiders (Calverton, MD)
- Waverocker Energy (Montrose, CA)
The Power at Sea Prize CONCEPT Phase was one of WPTO’s most competitive challenges to date, and we appreciate the engagement and effort of all the teams who competed. We hope you will continue to advance your technologies and compete in future prizes from the American-Made program.
