![]() “Marine energy systems, like CalWave’s xWave, are exciting not just because they can provide clean, carbon-free energy to coastal communities,” said Yana Shininger, a technical project officer for the U.S. coastlines: Offshore, portable wave energy devices could help power the growing blue economy, including sensor-equipped sea drones that collect data on ocean ecosystems for marine research. On its own, wave energy could satisfy up to 34% of the United States’ electricity needs. Combined, the three renewable resources could provide the grid with reliable power both day and night and year-round. When the sun sets and winds slow, waves keep moving at a steady pace through all four seasons. Wave energy is also a good complement to other renewable energy resources. “Wave power is regarded as the largest unused renewable resource and the third-largest technical feasible resource,” said Lehmann, who co-founded California-based CalWave in 2014. The launch edges the technology closer to providing grid-connected electricity for coastal communities worldwide. In September 2021, one of those designs-CalWave’s xWave-got a step closer with the company’s (and California’s) first at-sea, long-duration wave energy pilot project. Several architectural designs are currently vying for commercial success. But the marine energy industry-which develops technology that creates electricity from ocean waves, currents, and tides-is in an earlier stage of development. Through decades of development, the solar power and wind energy industries have homed in on the most cost-effective and efficient designs to transform these energy sources into electricity. Today, as the CEO of CalWave Power Technologies, Inc., Lehmann and his team build machines to capture a different, newer renewable energy source: the energy of ocean waves. After hearing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urgently call for more renewable energy, the young engineer decided to dedicate his career to thwarting climate change with new renewable energy solutions. Innovation Grants are funded in part by a grant from Houston Endowment, Inc.In high school, Marcus Lehmann built a solar-powered race car. Innovation Grants awarded for the 2012-13 academic year are Graphic Novel Workshop, Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, and Materiality, Innovation Grants awarded for the 2013-14 academic year are Antena at Blaffer , Art Lies in Gulf Coast, Bodas de Sangre/A Blood Wedding , Napoleon and the Battle of Nations, On Screen: A Film and Video Series, Shifting Spaces, Spit My Story , Re(cycle): Pedal Power Pop Up, Theaster Gates with FEAST: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art , Visiting Artist and Scholar Series with Blaffer Art Museum, and an Artist Residency with Raqs Media Collective. Innovation Grants awarded for the 2014-2015 academic year are Ligatures: Artists and Authors in Conversation Janet Biggs Residency and Exhibition Sunset at Allen’s Landing Xwave Soundart Festival Early Awnings: New Work by Henning Bohl and Sergei Tcherepnin Visiting Artist and Scholar Series On Screen: A Film and Video Series and Plasticity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. ![]() Innovation Grants awarded for the 2015-2016 academic year are Time/Image, The Unsung Masters Series, and Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context. Painting Across and Beyond Disciplines, Til Now: Contemporary Art in Context, Animal Farm, Balance and Flow, and Memory Web. Innovation Grants awarded for the 2016-2017 academic year are Embodied Thinking. ![]() Innovation Grants awarded for the 2017-2018 academic year are BAM Speaker Series: Future Past, Beneath the Skin: A Living Museum Installation, Devices for Defense + Protection, Horse Dream Horse, Reguarding Room, Text Neck, and Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context. Projects are selected by peer review panel on the basis of their capacity to be transformational for their home department(s). Innovation Grants are awarded to member departments each fall for the following year’s programming. Mitchell Center member units, the School of Art, Blaffer Art Museum, Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music, and the School of Theatre and Dance are eligible for annual grants for innovative new projects. The Mitchell Center serves as an engine for the development of innovative, interdisciplinary art projects on the University Campus. ![]()
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