Installation, Operations, Maintenance and Safety

• Reducing IO&M Costs
• Decarbonization of IO&M
• Port logistics and readiness
• Supply chain readiness
• Planned and unplanned maintenance
• Training and safety
• Vessel availability
• Automation for installation and inspection
• Health monitoring systems
• Decommissioning

PBE Appications

• Desalination
• AUV,UAV,ASVs
• Plastics detection and removal in the ocean
• Aquaculture
• Ocean Observation
• Understanding power needs
• Remote and island community 
• Connecting with other fields
• Underwater data centers

Rov COPY (to be replaced)

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Windmills

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Birds

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Materials and Structures

• Learning from other industries
• Mass reduction in materials and structures
• Exploring composites
• Structural integrity
• Nanotechnologies
• Mooring/anchoring
• Fluid-structure seabed interaction
• Corrosion-resistant materials
• Simulation and modeling tools

Design

• Co-design
• Simulation
• Blue economy scale design
• Standards

Systems

• Hydraulics and cooling
• Energy storage
• Sensors
• Power Take-off
• Hybrid systems
• Integrated modeling tools

WEC 1 COPY (to be replaced)

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Environmental and Resource Characterization

• Permitting and Regulatory Processes
• Understanding environmental impacts
• Mitigation strategies
• Erosion and sediment transport modeling
• Instrumentation
• Acoustics
• Marine mammals
• Seabirds
• Fish
• Seabed/benthos
• Lack of in-situ devices to study

Hydrodynamics

• Fluid-structure interactions
• Simulations
• Array dynamics

Data

• Data Sharing 
• Data Management
• Database integration
• Engagement with end-users

Electrical Components and Systems

• Energy storage
• Grid modeling and integration
• Power Take-offs
• Cabling – power to shore and power to devices
• Micro-grids
• Resiliency and redundancy

Equity, Community and Policy

• Increasing diversity within the marine energy sector
• Impacts and benefits for end users of all areas
• Policy and Governance
• Community Participation
• Human Centered Design and Participatory Methods
• Inclusive and equitable funding schemes
• Marine planning and interaction with other users
• Environmental justice

Economics

• Modeling for power 
• Modeling for community readiness
• Continue to develop and iterate roadmaps
• Developing metrics for socio-economic impacts
• Challenges of local/global scale in modeling and impacts
• Life-cycle Analysis
• Risk Analysis
• Cost-benefit Analysis

Manufacturing

• Advanced manufacturing capabilities
• Life-cycle Analysis
• Cross-cutting methods and lessons learned
• Material procurement