TEAMER 2025 Year in Review

Last year, TEAMER made some big advances in how we help Marine Energy developers make their own big advances—here are some highlights from 2025. 🎉

TEAMER’s network of facility partners, those organizations approved by the program’s Technical Board to help support recipients carry out their testing and research, grew by 16 last year. In addition, many existing organizations added additional capabilities. Nine of these new facilities were added to provide capabilities in TEAMER’s newest support category, Commercialization. Check out these new facilities in the sidebar 👉 or find a TEAMER facility to support your application here.

Last year, TEAMER approved 39 marine energy support applications, totaling over $6.3 million. These numbers represent records in terms of both number of applications received and number of projects approved per round. The above chart shows the approved project’s categories.

There were some big updates to the program last year, starting with two new support categories. First, for those seeking to ensure their research and technology development efforts will be able to make the leap to being a sustainable business, we now offer Commercialization support. And past support recipients who would like to share their research can apply

TEAMER hosted 3 webinars, 2 facility summits and 1 in-person workshop, attended 4 conferences, and conducted numerous facility site visits last year. Topics included How to Write a Successful Test Plan, a Facility Showcase webinar, Environmental Monitoring for Marine Energy, and TEAMER Reviewer and Team Lead training.

Thank you to all the partners who keep TEAMER running—our teammates, network facilities, technical board members, reviewers, DOE/H2O team, all of our applicants past and future, technical partners, and everyone else we encounter doing our work in this industry. We wish you all much success and happiness in 2026.