Water Power Technologies Office R&D Deep Dive Webinar Series: Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit: Connecting Marine Energy and the Environment

This R&D Deep Dive highlights Sandia National Laboratory's Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit (SEAT), which allows energy project stakeholders to simulate site- and technology-specific marine environments to model the beneficial or potentially detrimental impacts WECs or CECs may have. SEAT also offers developers and regulators a way to model how different marine energy deployments can maximize energy production while providing protective barriers for vulnerable coastal environments. The toolkit makes it easier for regulatory agencies, stakeholders, and industry developers to effectively evaluate permit requirements (e.g., what to study, where, and when) saving time and cutting deployment costs.

Webinar Timestamps:

0:00—Introduction—Ryan Ingwersen, NREL
2:00—Jesse Roberts, Sandia National Laboratory
13:28—Craig Jones, Integral Consulting
52:35—Q&A with Presenters