About PRIMRE
The Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE) provides centralized access to various marine energy data and information, ranging from power performance data and environmental monitoring reports to device testing guidance and software code.
The PRIMRE Mission
PRIMRE facilitates access to the growing wealth of marine energy information, including power performance data, environmental monitoring reports, device testing guidance, and software code. Historically, much of this data has been inaccessible, scattered across various locations and formats, often without proper cataloging. PRIMRE facilitates data sharing and interoperability to spur innovation, reduce costs, and accelerate technology development in the marine energy industry.
How PRIMRE is advancing Marine Energy
While Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) funded the creation of numerous databases and online tools over the years, PRIMRE acts to coordinate and connect these resources into a single location. Each database maintains its own fit-for-purpose identity, but PRIMRE encourages consistent definitions and taxonomies and creates a centralized search. A goal of PRIMRE is that all marine energy information will be easily accessible by decision makers and the public. The PRIMRE team is very active in outreach and dissemination so that the industry and research community are aware of and use this resource.
Connecting Marine Energy Data
How do you connect separate knowledge hubs into a central location? There must be a common “language” that allows information to be shared with PRIMRE. We created a PRIMRE metadata schema that describes how knowledge hubs can send content to PRIMRE, using APIs that PRIMRE can search daily to get new content as it is added. While files live only on the source knowledge hub, PRIMRE gets all the descriptive information and can link to the source knowledge hub in a centralized search. PRIMRE also encourages international marine energy databases to adopt this metadata standard so that their content can also be integrated into PRIMRE’s centralized search.
Continual Data Curation
Striving to provide the most up-to-date information on marine energy, PRIMRE has an active team of curators that adds new content on a regular basis. Our content teams are made up of trained researchers who leverage processes that have been refined after more than a decade of content curation. Where possible, PRIMRE will list a “Last Updated” date on content to provide details on when it was last reviewed. However, if you do find missing or incorrect information, we welcome input from the community.
Trusted by the Industry
All content in PRIMRE is vetted and curated by a trained content team with domain experts. Our goal is to provide a positive and intuitive visitor experience while exploring PRIMRE and learning about marine energy. PRIMRE is designed on the FAIR data principles—Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability— by leveraging semantic structures, making all content free and available to the public, encouraging international data standards, and referencing source material. PRIMRE has also adopted the FARR standards—FAIR, AI Readiness & Reproducibility—in an effort to leverage technology advances to improve data curation and content discoverability. The content team regularly checks PRIMRE for broken links, missing information, and consistent tagging to provide you with a positive experience.
Developed and Maintained by Marine Energy Experts
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and Ocean Energy Systems (OES) directed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) to enhance the accessibility and discoverability of information relevant to marine energy research and development in the United States. The PRIMRE national lab team is cross-cutting in their expertise, and the PRIMRE steering committee is made up of individuals from various parts of the marine energy research and industry.
The PRIMRE project is a national lab collaboration success story, with the labs taking on various roles for each Knowledge Hub. PNNL hosts and curates Tethys and Tethys Engineering, hosts Marine Energy Software and curates the Projects Database. Sandia curates Telesto, Marine Energy Software, and Signature Projects. NREL hosts and curates MHKDR and Marine Energy Atlas, hosts PRIMRE.org, Telesto, and Projects Database. All three labs curate PRIMRE.org.
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Preferred Citation(s)
The below citation can be used when referring to PRIMRE at large. Please cite individual datasets, publications, or Knowledge Hubs used in your work where relevant.
Citation Formats
“Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE).” PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE. Accessed <day> <monthRoman>, <year>.
PRIMRE. <year>. "Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMRE)." Accessed <day> <monthRoman>, <year>, . openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE.
Selected Publications
The following publications provide more details about PRIMRE:
