1. Ocean Energy and Regional
Integration Perspective
Michael Hagood
Robert Breckenridge
Kurt Myers
Idaho National
Laboratory
Washington State Ocean
Energy Conference:
Deep Water Wind and An
Ocean Energy Economy
November, 2011
Bremerton, WA

2. Pacific Northwest Energy Corridor
Ocean energy opportunities will emerge in
nested bi-national regional context
• The Puget Sound area is engaged in acquiring “clean”
energy resources, reducing dependency on oil,
emissions and CO2 footprint, and helping lead in
adoption of electrification of vehicles and ports
• The area hosts DoD bases and major ports with
progressive energy security goals
• Advancing ocean energy in the area will require a
sophisticated assessment of regional energy resources,
including optimizing energy infrastructure investments
(North-South trends; East-West trends)
• Significant energy and mineral resource development
will occur along the PNW coastline, extending into the
Arctic Region
• The PNW Coast will increasingly be integrated with
Asian markets and investments, with significant exports
of energy and minerals from the PNW
Plans exist to further develop energy
infrastructure to help integrate “clean”
energy supplies from NW coast and to
supply Asia with N. American energy
resources (modified; courtesy of Sea
Breeze Power Corporation)

3. Regional Renewable Energy will be integrated into
Greater Regional Energy Systems
Energy Storage Renewable Energy
(e.g., battery) (e.g., wind, solar)
Renewable
Energy
System
Time-varying
Primary Thermal Source
(e.g., nuclear, fossil)
Hybrid Energy System Grid Demand
heat Steam Turbine-
Generator
heat
Intermediate
Heat Exchanger Chemical Synthesis
Carbon Source Domestic
(e.g., H2 or methanol) Synthetic Fuel
(e.g., natural gas)
fuel Auxiliary steam
Heat
Generation
carbon

4. Strategic Planning is Critical in Introducing Ocean
Energy Options
• Identify candidate end states in
the context of being “nested”
within a greater bi-national
regional energy corridor
• Identify associated requirements
and develop a set of integrated
roadmaps to generate possible
pathways, i.e., for policy,
technology, investment,
environment, etc.
• Utilize energy framework as
platform for moving up the energy
value chain, creating industrial
enterprises
• Create bi-national regional Existing, Proposed, and In Existing, Proposed, and
leadership groups to support Construction Transmission in Construction Oil
endeavor Pipelines

5. INL is a Regional Stakeholder Addressing PNW Energy Opportunities
INL and EV Project is providing
electrification infrastructure
foundation for Puget Sound & I-5
Green Highway
PNW Economic Region INL- Mountain Home AFB
avt.inl.gov
Transmission Study Geothermal Project
(fig. from TransCanada)
Virtual Renewable Energy Prospector
http://hydropower.inl.gov/prospector/
INL Wind Projects