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.