

The International DesalinationĪssociation will host technical seminars for the teams on desalination and commercialization Janicki Industries, an aerospace engineering firm, will provide valuable design-for-manufacturingįeedback, as well as offer office hours for the competitors. Organizations that are supporting their innovations.

The competitors will also have a unique opportunity to collaborate with external The prize is currently in the CREATE Stage, and teams have 180 days to build a functional prototype or proof of concept of their Jennette’s Pier in North Carolina’s Outer Banks will host the cadre of Waves to Water competitors The Waves to Water Prize, NREL and WPTO are inspiring climate innovators to rise to Of climate change are likely to worsen this reality. Today, as we commemorate World Water Day 2021, more than 1.1 billion people lack access to potable water, and the growing impacts Innovation in small, modular, wave-powered desalination systems capable of producingĬlean water in disaster and recovery scenarios, as well as in water-scarce coastal Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and administered by NREL, the five-stage, $3.3 million contest aims to accelerate Their goal? Reducing the deployment risk for competitors of the Waves to Water Prize. Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are building this confidence with theĭevelopment of a simple, easily deployable wave-energy-powered desalination device. It is easier to dive in with confidence after testing the water first-and National Is helping Waves to Water Prize competitors chart their course and advance the cause NREL's hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis (HERO) wave energy converter (WEC) device
