Ocean Renewable Power Company Secures Contract for Tidal Energy Conversion & Storage

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — The Coast Guard, in a partnership with Maine state and congressional delegation, is pleased to announce the Coast Guard’s award of the Eastport, Maine Tidal Energy Project to Ocean Renewable Power Company of Portland, Maine. The $100,000 contract is planned to support a system installation used to harness and store tidal [...]

OceanObs’09 Venice, Italy 21-25 September 2009

Stanford study: Half of the fish consumed globally is now raised on farms

Aquaculture now accounts for half of the fish consumed globally, according to a recent Stanford study. The more than a decade-long trend toward fish farming is straining the resources of some wild fish species, which are harvested to feed the farmed varieties. Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish [...]

GE Energy Expands in Growing Offshore Wind Sector with Acquisition of ScanWind

GE has announced  the completion of the acquisition of ScanWind. With this move, GE has expanded its portfolio of renewable energy offerings to better serve customers. ScanWind is a developer of advanced drive train and control wind turbine technologies aimed at offshore deployment. “The acquisition of ScanWind is an important step in our strategy to [...]

EPA Expects to Revise Rules for Wastewater Discharges from Power Plants

 Discharges from power plants can have major adverse effects on water quality and wildlife  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water. Wastewater discharged from coal ash ponds, air pollution control equipment, and other equipment [...]

Marine Current Turbines Rated World’s # 1 Tidal Power Company

Marine Current Turbines has been ranked as the world’s leading tidal power company in the Cleantech Group’s “Global Cleantech 100” survey, produced in association with the UK’s Carbon Trust. Marine Current Turbines (MCT) is the only tidal energy company featured on the global list and one of just 13 British companies that are ranked. Last [...]

Vestas launches V112-3.0 MW turbine for offshore Today

Vestas will announce a new turbine for the offshore market. The V112-3.0 MW offshore model is optimised for the conditions at sea and will be a hard working, reliable turbine. The V112-3.0 MW Offshore can generate more power than any other turbine in the 3 MW class. It offers an exceptional rotor-to-generator ratio for greater [...]

Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnston to Deliver Keynote Address at 4th Annual Ocean Renewable Energy Conference

Momentum Builds as Registration Increases and New Program Highlights are Announced Oregon Wave Energy Trust today announced Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Ocean Renewable Energy Conference. Senator Johnson will share her vision for repositioning Oregon and the Oregon Coast for the future. “Senator Johnson has [...]

StatoilHydro’s Hywind pilot -The world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine is Officially inaugurated in the North Sea

Margareth Øvrum, executive vice president for Technology & New Energy in StatoilHydro, performed the official inauguration of the Hywind pilot on 8 September. Also present are Gunnar Myrebøe, executive vice president for Projects & Procurement in StatoilHydro and Terje Riis-Johansen, Norway’s petroleum and energy minister. “Today, we’re inaugurating the pilot facility which could help floating [...]

Public Hearings Scheduled for the U.S.’s First Ocean Management Plan

On July 1, under the authority of the Oceans Act of 2008, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) unveiled a blueprint for managing the Commonwealth’s ocean waters – a Draft Ocean Management Plan. This fall, EEA will take comment from the public before finalizing a plan that extends new protections to two-thirds [...]

DeepWater Wind Studies Offshore Windfarm Site

Deepwater Wind conducting comprehensive environmental studies on Block IslandThis summer, Deepwater Wind is conducting an array of environmental studies on and around Block Island, Rhode Island, as part of its preparations for a proposed Block Island offshore wind farm: A vessel completed oceanographic surveys of potential areas for the proposed Block Island Wind Farm and [...]

The RITE Kinetic Hydropower System Project East River – New York, NY

Initiated in 2002, Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project is being operated in New York City’s East River. In three phases, the RITE Project will test, demonstrate and deliver commercial electricity from Verdant Power’s Free Flow Kinetic Hydropower System (tidal). The RITE Project is a prime example of how the Free Flow System [...]

Southampton University asserts pre-eminence of Tidal Energy

(UK) — Tidal power researchers at Southampton University favour marine current turbines over offshore wind farms to provide predictable energy. Research at the University suggested that marine current turbines had the potential to access four times more energy than offshore wind turbines. “Marine current turbines have many advantages compared to other renewable energy sources such [...]

Help Stop Shark Finning!

Shark finning is the barbaric practice of cutting off a shark’s fins and throwing it’s still living body back into the sea.  The result is a slow and agonizing death for the shark from starvation, suffocation (if they are not in constant movment their gills cannot extract oxygen from from the water) or  being eaten [...]

Massive Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Reminder of Environmental Risks

It seemed appropriate, the day after BP’s announcement of an oil discovery 35,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, to report on a massive oil spill off the northwest coast of Australia, which will continue leaking oil for a total of eight weeks before the well can be capped.   The leaking oil [...]

Green Ocean Energy Ltd Using Advanced Simulation Software for Product Development

ANSYS, Inc. a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that the companie’s software  is helping transform the relentless forces of waves into electricity. Green Ocean Energy Ltd, a U.K.-based renewable energy company, is using technology from ANSYS to develop devices that will reliably generate renewable power [...]