Georgetown, S.C. – Officials with Santee Cooper, Coastal Carolina University and the South Carolina Energy Office recently announced the launch of weather buoys that will measure wind off the coast of Georgetown and Little River, a significant step that positions South Carolina as a leader in the rapidly developing national wind energy landscape. Six buoys [...]
May 15th, 2009 was the deadline for pre-qualified companies seeking leases for wave and tidal energy projects in the Pentland Firth strategic area, to make their formal applications and place their bids. The Crown Estate has announced that it has received multiple bids for each of the lease types and all capacities made available for the [...]
The University of Plymouth is one of only two UK universities selected to take part in a landmark pan-European marine project worth €55M. The Universities of Plymouth and Reading have joined forces with 60 of the leading marine organisations across Europe, including PMSP partner Plymouth Marine Laboratory, to carry out the landmark MyOcean project. Funded [...]
NIPPON YUSEN KABUSHIKI KAISHA (NYK) has released an initial exploratory design for its NYK Super Eco Ship 2030, an energy-efficient ship expected to emit far fewer CO2 emissions than current vessels. The design was created by MTI, a wholly owned NYK subsidiary charged with making use of advances in technology, along with Garroni Progetti s.r.l, [...]
Calling it a major step forward in President Obama’s new energy frontier, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, joined by New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine, today issued five exploratory leases for renewable wind energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore New Jersey and Delaware. “We are entering a new day for energy production [...]
The 61st annual International Whaling Commission meeting will conclude its week long proceedings in Madeira, Portugal today. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which was signed in Washington DC on 2nd December 1946. The purpose of the Convention was to provide for the proper conservation [...]
Invasive species of algae have posed a threat to the coral reefs of Hawaii for several years. In a National Geographic article, University of Hawaii marine biologist Cynthia Hunter is quoted as saying “The algae invasion poses the largest current threat to the health of reefs in Hawaii“. According to Hunter, thick coatings of algae [...]
Following a competitive tender process, Irish tidal energy company OpenHydro has awarded a contract to Cherubini Metal Works of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for the supply of a subsea base to support the installation of its first tidal turbine in Canadian waters. The unit is scheduled for deployment this fall in the Minas Passage of the [...]
DONG Energy’s offshore wind farm Horns Rev 2 in the North Sea is now supplying the first CO2-free power to the Danish national grid. The farm’s total of 91 wind turbines will be installed during the course of 2009, but the first wind turbines have already been put into operation. Once completed later this year, [...]
Recently this month, Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced that the company has reached two major manufacturing milestones in the development of the it’s flagship PB150 PowerBuoy®, which is to be ready for deployment at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland by the end of 2009. A state-of-the-art wave energy converter, the PB150 is the [...]
Recently , the Senator for the state of Maine, Susan M, Collins met with Energy Secretary Chu to discuss a proposal for a National Center for Offshore Wind Research
The European Policy Centre in Brussels released a report late yesterday warning that the ocean is warming about 50 percent faster than two years ago. Their report compiled research presented at the Science Congress in Copenhagen in March. They estimate that recent observations are near the worst-case predictions of the 2007 report by the United [...]
The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary is located 42 miles off the coast of San Francisco and is one of 14 marine protected areas managed by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. Designated by Congress in 1989, the sanctuary’s productive waters are a destination feeding area for local and migratory marine life. In total, the sanctuary [...]
The Town of Wiscasset, Maine and Chewonki Foundation recently announced that the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) has issued a preliminary permit to study the use of tidal currents in the Sheepscot River for electrical generation. If approved, the proposed current power project would be comprised of 4 to 40 turbines with a total peak generating [...]
A proposal to generate electricity from wave energy has been awarded $760,000 under the New Zealand government’s Marine Energy Deployment Fund, was recently announced by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.The WET-NZ project involves constructing and deploying a pre-commercial, half-scale device with a peak capacity of 20 kilowatts.The WET-NZ project put forward by Power Projects [...]
England’s Marine Current Turbines has won the Renewable Energy Association’s Developer of the Year Award. The award recognised the company’s successful design, deployment and operation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal current energy system. SeaGen, the world’s first and so far only commercial-scale tidal current energy system, was installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough last year and [...]
Aquamarine Power Gets Green Light for 2.4MW Demonstration Project in Orkney
Ecotricity Enters Wave Energy Industry
Alstom and SSE Renewables Create Joint Venture to Co-Develop World’s Largest Wave Farm off the Coast of Scotland
Pelamis Wave Power Up for Sale
Major New Green Energy Fund Acquires Stake in Aquamarine Power
Eco Wave Power Company is Taking the Fast Track to Success
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