What If Waves Could Power the Future?

The ocean is constantly moving, and most of that energy goes unused.In this episode of the Pittsburgh Startup Podcast, I sit down with Priscilla Prem, Co-Founder and CEO of Pittsburgh Coastal Energy, to talk about building technology that can harness underutilized wave energy and turn it into power for underwater systems.Pittsburgh Coastal Energy is developing a new way to capture energy from ocean motion, with the potential to extend the life of underwater robots, submersibles, and defense systems that currently rely on limited battery power. It’s a conversation about overlooked energy sources, hard tech commercialization, and what it takes to build a coastal energy company from Pittsburgh.We also get into Priscilla’s path from the Navy to P.H.D to founding a company, and why wave energy could become a major piece of the future ocean economy.