Abstract
As the MRE industry grows, increasingly large amounts of data and information are being generated from device testing, environmental monitoring, numerical modeling studies, laboratory experiments, and more. These data and information are essential to supporting MRE progress, including the need to share successes and failures, ensuring that hard fought lessons are not lost and that results of studies are available to be built upon and not repeated. The United States has created the Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE) a comprehensive data and information system that is headlined by Tethys, the system that supports inquiries into potential environmental effects of MRE, and acts as the platform that supports all OES-Environmental activities. Tethys and analogous systems from other countries that curate, store, and disseminate information on environmental effects of MRE are described in Chapter 8.
The 2024 State of the Science Report consists of 11 chapters which can be downloaded as a whole or individually. Download Chapter 8: Marine Renewable Energy Data and Information Systems here.