The UK Government today welcomed Siemens plans to invest £80million in the UK for offshore wind production facilities, following the Government’s Budget announcement of £60m for a competition to develop manufacturing and assembly sites sites for the offshore wind industry. This announcement demonstrates that the UK is the world’s top destination for offshore wind energy [...]
US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and US Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the two agencies, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, will cooperate more closely and align priorities to support the development of environmentally sustainable hydropower. The Memorandum of Understanding represents a new approach to hydropower development – a strategy [...]
The Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA), the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Shanghai International Exhibition Co., Ltd (SIEC), a subsidiary of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Shanghai Sub-council, have joined forces to build Asia’s first professional platform focused on the offshore wind power market – – the “Offshore Wind [...]
Oregon Wave Energy Trust has announced the release of the Wave Energy Infrastructure Assessment in Oregon, completed by Advanced Research Corporation, an expert in the areas of marine studies and applications, including renewable energy technology and ocean observation. Oregon Wave Energy Trust commissioned a gap analysis to assess the infrastructure needs of ocean renewable energy [...]
Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables have been awarded the rights to develop a major offshore wind farm off the east coast of England in the North Sea. Fully utilised, it has potential to meet the equivalent electricity needs of more than four million homes annually. This opportunity is in line with Vattenfall’s ambition to increase the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
UK Government Steps in to Assure Future of Cornwall Wave Hub Site
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