Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP)
Pays teams up to $200,000 to develop new materials that convert ocean wave motion into electricity.
InDEEP frames its own goals as more than just funding individual teams: it wants to systematically develop DEEC-Tec concepts with real value to the wave-energy industry, build a lasting solver community that pulls in innovators from outside marine energy, and use what it learns from the competition to refine its own innovation methods for future prizes. Every competitor, regardless of prior marine…
The prize looks for new precommercial materials and components for distributed embedded energy converter technology that can turn ocean wave motion into grid-scale electricity. It draws on fields like piezoelectrics, polymers and actuators, wanting concepts with strong techno-economic potential for marine energy conversion.
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