Kinetic Energy Harvesting on Marine Vessels

Deadline: 2019-05-14
Award: $1,000,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian companies*

Coast Guard seeks solutions that will help eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from its operations, in support of Canada's Paris Agreement commitment to fight global warming and climate change through significant greenhouse gas reductions through 2030. This will require a process of 'decarbonizing,' which refers to an accelerating reduction of GHGs through time.

As part of a system-approach to decarbonizing marine vessel operations, this challenge seeks novel or state-of-the-art, scalable solutions for harnessing kinetic energy from the roll, pitch and yaw of marine vessels with the goal of reducing energy consumption and reliance on externally-sourced and stored energy.