Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE) (https://primre.org) provides broad access to data, information, and other resources intended to support the international marine energy community, including researchers, developers, and students. PRIMRE is made up of seven knowledge hubs: the Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR) hosts datasets, Tethys hosts environmental documents, Tethys Engineering hosts technical documents, the Marine Energy Projects Database hosts deployment activities, Marine Energy Software hosts software, Marine Energy Atlas hosts geospatial data, and Telesto hosts development guidance. The PRIMRE aggregate search allows users to easily search, filter, and find content from across all seven knowledge hubs. Other key features of PRIMRE include an events calendar, archived webinars, marine energy basics, a bi-weekly newsletter, prize information, and online tools from around the world.
The PRIMRE team also works with other marine energy data systems to address barriers to data sharing for universal and transparent access and to improve connections between data providers, subject matter experts, and the communities of people using marine energy data. PRIMRE seeks to provide universal access to data through integration with PRIMRE’s centralized search and through the adoption of cloud-based, centralized data lakes, which remove barriers to access for big, complex datasets and empower communities of all sizes to interact with big data. These improvements further connect communities to the data they need to inform decisions, design and deploy wave and tidal devices, advance marine energy research, and develop innovative solutions to local energy problems. This poster will highlight key resources available within PRIMRE and discuss recent efforts made towards increased data sharing and connectedness.