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OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY INFORMATION SOURCES

GENERAL

Renewable Energy Resource:  A Research Guide for Students

http://www.aresearchguide.com/energy.html

Renewable Energy Access (free weekly newsletter)

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/home

Renewable Energy Technologies for Use on the Outer Continental Shelf

http://ocsenergy.anl.gov/documents/docs/NREL_Scoping_6_06_2006_web.pdf

Ocean Energy: The ocean can produce two types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, and mechanical energy from the tides and waves. http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/tech/oceanenergy

Sierra Club Conservation Policy (see Offshore Oil and Gas, and Energy Facility Siting)

http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/index.asp#Energy

GOVERNANCE

FEDERAL WATERS

US Minerals Management Service

http://www.mms.gov/

http://www.mms.gov/offshore/RenewableEnergy/RenewableEnergyMain.htm

STATE WATERS
Massachusetts

Existing and Potential Ocean-Based Energy Facilities and Associated Infrastructure in Massachusetts—a written report and map products illustrating existing and potential ocean-based energy facilities.
http://www.mass.gov/czm/oceanmanagement/projects/projects.htm.

 WINDPOWER

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), General Electric (GE), and the U.S. Department of Energy have formed an Organizing Group to discuss and create guidelines for an offshore wind collaborative, with input from a wide range of stakeholders interested in sustainable, technologically sound development of offshore wind energy resources

http://www.mtpc.org/renewableenergy/owec.htm

http://www.mindbranch.com/catalog/print_product_page.jsp?code=R374-166
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For general wind power info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

USFWS
http://www.fws.gov/habitatconservation/wind.htm.

National Wind Coordinating Committee

http://www.nationalwind.org/

Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory
www.nrel.gov/wind/

TIDAL POWER

Hydrokinetic and Wave Energy Technologies Technical and Environmental Issues
Workshop, October 26-28, 2005 in Washington, DC
Proceedings are available on DOE's Idaho National Lab (INL) website at:
http://hydropower.inl.gov/hydrokinetic_wave/

U.S. Ocean Wave Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Center (create and test wave-power technologies).
http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2006spring/features/seapower.html

Tidal Power News; The Latest Headlines and Information about Tidal Energy
and Ocean and Wave Generator Electricity.
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/tidal-power/

WAVE

EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) Wave Energy Reports, 2003-2005

http://www.epri.com/targetWhitePaperContent.asp?program=270686&value=05T084.0&objid=297213



September 2006