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Suggested Citation:"E Acronym List." National Research Council. 2013. An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18278.
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Acronym List

ADCIRC   Advanced Circulation Model
ADCP   acoustic Doppler current profiler
     
BOEM   Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
     
DOE   Department of Energy
DOI   Department of the Interior
     
EGL   energy gradeline
EIA   Energy Information Administration
EMEC   European Marine Energy Centre
ENSO   El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EPA   Environmental Protection Agency
EPRI   Electric Power Research Institute
     
FERC   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FWS   U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife
     
GDEM   Generalized Digital Environment Model
GIS   geographic information system
     
HF   high frequency
HGL   hydraulic gradient line
HYCOM-GLOBAL   Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model
Suggested Citation:"E Acronym List." National Research Council. 2013. An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18278.
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HYCOM-GOM   Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model—Gulf of Mexico
     
IEC   International Electrotechnical Commission
     
JPL-ROMS   Jet Propulsion Laboratory Regional Ocean Model System
     
MHK   marine and hydrokinetic (resources)
MOC   maximum operating condition
MODAS   Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
     
NCOM   Navy Coastal Ocean Model
NOAA   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC   National Research Council
NREL   National Renewable Energy Laboratory
     
ORNL   Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORPC   Ocean Renewable Power Company
OTEC   ocean thermal energy conversion
     
PDF   probability density function
     
ROC   rated operating condition
ROMS   Regional Ocean Modeling System
     
SOT   statement of task
SST   sea surface temperature
     
TBD   to be determined
TGE   turbogenerator efficiency
TOC   threshold operating condition
     
USACE   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
     
WSL   water surface line
Suggested Citation:"E Acronym List." National Research Council. 2013. An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18278.
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Suggested Citation:"E Acronym List." National Research Council. 2013. An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18278.
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Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) resources to contribute to electricity generation. These resources derive from ocean tides, waves, and currents; temperature gradients in the ocean; and free-flowing rivers and streams. One measure of the interest in the possible use of these resources for electricity generation is the increasing number of permits that have been filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). As of December 2012, FERC had issued 4 licenses and 84 preliminary permits, up from virtually zero a decade ago. However, most of these permits are for developments along the Mississippi River, and the actual benefit realized from all MHK resources is extremely small. The first U.S. commercial gridconnected project, a tidal project in Maine with a capacity of less than 1 megawatt (MW), is currently delivering a fraction of that power to the grid and is due to be fully installed in 2013.

As part of its assessment of MHK resources, DOE asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide detailed evaluations. In response, the NRC formed the Committee on Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Assessment. As directed in its statement of task (SOT), the committee first developed an interim report, released in June 2011, which focused on the wave and tidal resource assessments (Appendix B). The current report contains the committee's evaluation of all five of the DOE resource categories as well as the committee's comments on the overall MHK resource assessment process. This summary focuses on the committee's overarching findings and conclusions regarding a conceptual framework for developing the resource assessments, the aggregation of results into a single number, and the consistency across and coordination between the individual resource assessments. Critiques of the individual resource assessment, further discussion of the practical MHK resource base, and overarching conclusions and recommendations are explained in An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessment.

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