 More than 275,000 people and leading scientific and conservation organisations from the UK and around the world have called on the UK government to establish a protected area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is comprised of the Chagos Islands and its surrounding waters.
If established, the Chagos Protected Area would be the largest marine reserve in the world and play a vital role in fulfilling the UK’s global international conservation commitments.
Continue reading Global Organisations around the World Call for the World’s Largest Marine Reserve
 BWEA, the trade body for the UK wind and marine renewables industries, recently welcomed The Prime Minister’s announcement of the next generation of offshore wind farms. The industry body called on the Government to ensure that UK manufacturing benefits through support for skills and training, the identification of coastal manufacturing hubs and upgrades to the UK’s electricity grid.
This announcement of nine vast new offshore wind farm zones with a total capacity of 32GW would, if fully developed, will be enough to power every home in the UK. With between 5,000-6,000 turbines installed Round 3 would result in carbon savings of between 40 – 80 million tonnes annually.
Continue reading Nine Offshore Wind Farms Announced will Offset 40 to 80 Million Tonnes of CO2 per Year
 Vattenfall recently presented plans for the first wave power plant outside the Shetland Is-lands in the eastern Atlantic. The project could achieve installed capacity up to 20 MW as early as 2014, and it can be expanded to produce many times over that capacity.
Vattenfall and Pelamis Wave Power, the Edinburgh technology developer, launched this joint-venture to develop the first wave power project off the Shetland Islands. The venture, called Aegir Wave Power Ltd, was announced the same day that Vattenfall’s new office in Edinburgh, and the first in Scotland, was officially opened by the First Minister, the Rt Hon Alex Salmond MP, MSP.
Continue reading Twenty Megawatt Wave Power Farm Planned for outside the Shetland Islands
 Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has announced the award of EUR 2.2 million under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme, by the EC Directorate responsible for new and renewable sources of energy, energy efficiency and innovation.
The grant to OPT is part of a total award of EUR 4.5 million to a consortium of companies, including OPT, to deliver a PowerBuoy(R) wave energy device under a project entitled WavePort, with an innovative wave prediction capability and a “wave-by-wave” tuning system. It is anticipated that the PowerBuoy will be deployed at the Santoña site in Spain, where OPT has worked on a wave energy project under contract from Iberdrola, the major Spanish utility company.
Continue reading Spanish Wave Project Announced with a Consortium of Wave Energy Developers
 The latest future concept from industrial designer Yanko Design is a wave powered warning system for ocean or river navigation. The designer envisions using these devices to warn boaters of shallow waters, icebergs or other hazards. The Wavelight concept coverts mechanical energy captured by ocean waves into electrical energy to illuminate a series of LED lamps. Each lamp is tethered to its neighbor with a weight anchored to the sea floor.
The lights are designed to attract attention for rescue operations or to warn passing ships to steer clear.
Continue reading Wave Powered Seagoing Warning System – The Wavelight
 A small British-based tidal energy company has won a landmark contract to attempt to harness the power of the sea around India for the first time.
Atlantis Resources has forged a deal with the western state of Gujarat, under which the privately owned company will establish the feasibility of developing tidal power projects capable of generating more than 100 megawatts of power — enough to supply about 40,000 households.
Of particular interest are the Gulf of Kutch and the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea: two sites renowned for extreme daily tides. The project could lead to hundreds of millions of pounds worth of investment in tidal energy if the results of the study are positive.
Continue reading India Studies Feasibility of over 100 Megawatts of Tidal Energy Projects
 Australian ocean energy company, BioPower Systems has announced that it had secured land access, onshore development rights and project intellectual property for a commercial-scale wave energy site located near the town of Port Fairy, Victoria. The site offers unobstructed exposure to the immense wave power resource produced by the Southern Ocean.
“This stretch of coastline is well known around the world as a premiere location for wave energy development,” the CEO of BioPower Systems, Dr Timothy Finnigan, said. “The strength and consistency of the swell here is phenomenal.”
BioPower Systems expects to commence works at the site by the end of this year and to initially produce energy using a 250kW bioWAVE™ ocean wave energy system. A commercial wave farm using an array of larger 1MW bioWAVE™ units would follow.
Continue reading BioPower Systems to Develop 1 Megawatt Wave Energy Array
 Killer Whales in the Wild-NOAA The loss of human life yesterday at SeaWorld was tragic. The appropriate response to this tragedy would be to end the captivity of Killer Whales and the inexcusable exploitation of them by the entertainment industry. Continue reading Whale Attack at SeaWorld – End Captivity Now!
 A STUDY is underway to explore options for tidal energy generation across the Duddon Estuary in South Cumbria. Tidal barrages, fences, reefs and other innovative technologies will all be considered along with the potential for a road link between Barrow-in-Furness and Millom at the southern tip of Britain’s Energy Coast™.
Continue reading Study Commissioned to Explore Tidal Energy Generation Opportunites – UK
 IBERDROLA RENOVABLES, through its ScottishPower Renewables subsidiary, and Vattenfall have set up a 50/50 joint venture, East Anglia Offshore Wind, to develop this project off the coast of East Anglia.
Over the past 12 months, both companies have worked with the Crown Estate in assessing the zone. Studies have revealed the significant energy potential of the site, the excellent conditions of local ports and first-class grid connections. The future East Anglia Array offshore site will be one of nine new zones included in the Crown Estate’s third round of wind power licences. In all, up to 32,000 MW of offshore wind capacity is being awarded in Round 3, creating thousands of jobs and significantly cutting carbon emissions.
Continue reading Up to 32,000 Mwatts of Offshore Wind Energy Capacity awarded in the UK
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