High-level information about water power: the clean, affordable electricity that will move our nation toward
energy independence by harnessing tides, rivers, currents, waves, and marine energy.
Please select a water power technology:
Harnessing flowing water to power turbines or generators in order to produce electrical energy.
Hydropower
Capturing energy from waves, currents (including tides and ocean currents), the natural flow of water in rivers, and marine thermal gradients.
PRIMRE
Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy.