Powering Blue Innovation: The Ocean Observing Prize

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are offering up to US$2.4m in cash prizes and other support to help innovators find out. Now open for applications, the Ocean Observing Prize DEVELOP Competition seeks new concepts to integrate wave energy with autonomous underwater vehicles, creating a self-charging ocean-observing platform for hurricane monitoring that can remain deployed at sea for months at a time. It is part of the new DOE initiative for Powering the Blue Economy by working across sectors to find solutions that provide ocean energy to in-situ activities like ocean observation, aquaculture and other maritime markets.

Timeline: Competition dates Submission Open: October 19, 2020 Submission Close: February 16, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. EST Judging and Review Complete: Anticipated March 17, 2021 Winner Announcement and Awards: Anticipated April 1, 2021

Last date to take part in competition: February 16, 2020