The First P2 Pelamis wave energy machine, built for utility E.ON, has now been successfully removed from the EMEC site after four days of testing. This completes the first phase of a planned work-up programme, with the first deployment testing all aspects of the operational cycle. The machine removal was conducted using only the Voe [...]
Federal, state and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth officials today announced plans to develop a 300 square mile marine renewable energy technology test bed in ocean waters just south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Department of Energy hosted a workshop with the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative in Chicago on October 26 – 27, 2010, focused on the siting of offshore wind power in the Great Lakes.
Industrial-scale aquaculture production magnifies environmental degradation, according to the first global assessment of the effects of marine finfish aquaculture (e.g. salmon, cod, turbot and grouper) released today
NOAA’s Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary opened its new Ocean Climate Center today at its headquarters in San Francisco. The Ocean Climate Center will serve as an ocean and climate change communication center for the Bay Area and facilitate the exchange of technical, scientific, policy and education information and ideas.
announced eight joint research awards totaling nearly $5 million to support the responsible siting and permitting of offshore wind energy facilities and ocean energy generated from waves, tides, currents and thermal gradients. This critical research will address key information gaps regarding the potential environmental effects of renewable ocean energy.
SmartestEnergy, a UK purchaser and supplier of electricity from the independent generation sector, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), for all of the power generated from the wave and tidal devices operating at its flagship test centre in the Orkney Islands
Large-scale German project sets a milestone in the commercial use of offshore wind power Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract to deliver 80 wind turbines of the SWT-3.6-120 type for the DanTysk offshore wind power plant located in the North Sea. The customer is the DanTysk Offshore Wind GmbH in which Vattenfall Europe and [...]
Forty-two percent of the world’s critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable coral species, as identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are found in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone.
This is the first release of rehabilitated sea turtles to the waters near where they were rescued from oil more than three months ago — after extensive analysis to determine that the area is clean and a safe habitat for the turtles.
The Arctic region, also called the “planet’s refrigerator,” continues to heat up, affecting local populations and ecosystems as well as weather patterns in the most populated parts of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a team of 69 international scientists.
The new award follows the successful completion by OPT of the first stage of a four-year $15.0 million project for the US Navy’s Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program.
The commercial fishery for Antarctic krill–tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that serve as the building blocks of the Southern Ocean food chain–threatens Antarctic species such as penguins, whales and seals.
The Savannah Branch of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) presented a LEED® Gold Certification plaque to the Marine and Coastal Science Research and Instructional Center (MCSRIC) at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography this week.
This facility will make New Bedford Harbor more prosperous through all its uses, but especially by capturing the 600 to 1,000 jobs from construction of Cape Wind, and making Massachusetts the hub of offshore wind development on the Atlantic Coast.
In the parking lot of Coastal Carolina University’s Center for Marine and Wetland Studies (CMWS) in Conway, S.C., sit six buoys just back from sea.
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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