NOAA and SeaWeb have entered into a partnership to enhance understanding of the nation’s valuable but increasingly vulnerable coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean, Florida, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. Sometimes referred to as the ‘rainforests of the sea,’ coral reefs provide services estimated to be worth as much as $375 billion globally each year.
The energy giant said it was no longer planning to try and win an exploration licence in Greenland, , Britain’s Guardian daily said. ”We are not participating in the bid round,” a spokesman for the British firm told the paper without giving details on why the decision was taken. This news comes as the Scottish exploration [...]
A £5million (approximately $775 million U.S.)expansion of the world’s flagship test centre for full-scale wave and tidal energy machines has increased its capacity by a third – enabling new prototype devices to go into the water this year.
Coral living off the coast of Puerto Rico may provide researchers valuable information about the potential impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Solar Inspired Energy Inc. (SIE Inc), the owner of the SIE-CAT Wave Energy Accumulator technology seeks to identify individuals or corporations interested in partnering, acquiring, or licensing this unique and proprietary Intellectual Property (IP), thus ensuring the realization of successful commercialization.
Duke Energy Carolinas will no longer pursue a plan to place up to three demonstration wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound. Instead, the company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will refocus their collaboration to study and help enable large-scale offshore wind development on the ocean side of the North Carolina coast.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has issued regulations and a letter of authorization (LOA) to the U.S. Navy that require protective measures to minimize impacts to marine mammals while conducting training exercises around the Mariana Islands in the South Pacific.
The revelation that British government ministers are gathering views from industry and the scientific community about “peak oil”, the point at which oil production reaches its maximum and then declines, has prompted speculations about their concerned for a future supply crunch.
Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Atlantis Resources unveiled its AK-1000 tidal turbine at Invergordon last week. The device is thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world. Trials on the device will be run at a European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland.
Bharatbook has published a new report on “Global Marine Energy Market Analysis to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Regulation and Market Share Analysis” which highlights the growth of Global Marine Energy Industry
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC), an industry leader in tidal, river and deep-water ocean current energy technology and projects, announced today that its Beta Power System, the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine.
Wave energy is surging ahead as a viable source of renewable energy to generate electricity — with Australia’s southern margin identified by the World Energy Council as one of the world’s most promising sites for wave-energy generation.
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature made this July the second warmest on record, behind 1998, and the warmest averaged January-July on record. The global average land surface temperature for July and January–July was warmest on record. The global ocean surface temperature for July was the fifth warmest, and for January–July 2010 was the second warmest on record, behind 1998.
A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. Scotland is a hotbed for marine energy and the project developer, ScottishPower, wants hundreds more turbines to be built in the next few years. This is excellent news for green jobs in Scotland.
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX: CWE) is pleased to announce that its project application at the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination (‘NCED’) has been selected from amongst 61 applications.
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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