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    • Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Datasets

    Metadata Updated: April 29, 2025

    The data presented here were collected from the Ocean Thermal Extractable Energy Visualization (OTEEV) project. The OTEEV project focused on assessing the Maximum Practicably Extractable Energy (MPEE) from the world's ocean thermal resources.

    This project explored the feasibility of deploying Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plants to harness temperature differences between warm surface waters and cold deep seawater for renewable power generation. The resulting datasets - cold water depth, delta T, net power, plant spacing, sea surface temperature, and seawater cooling - capture critical environmental and engineering variables needed to assess OTEC site suitability, system efficiency, and regional deployment planning. Data were processed and converted to shapefile format by NREL for the OTEEV project - see linked "Ocean Thermal Extractable Energy Visualization Final Technical Report" resource below.

    For more information on the specific visualization datasets provided here, see section 7.1 of the linked report.

    Note: The shapefiles presented here were originally created as a part of the MHK atlas, which has been deprecated in favor of the Marine Energy Atlas. For more up to date datasets, please see the "Marine Energy Atlas" linked resource below.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 29, 2025

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Metadata Created Date April 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 29, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2014-11-25T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-28T17:29:01Z
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