The South Korean government has joined the frenzy regarding offshore wind development in the Asia-Pacific region. On the heels of China’s big investment announcement in offshore wind energy capacity, the South Koreans who currently import 97% of their energy needs, will invest $9 billion U.S. dollars to develop a 2.5 gigawatt offshore wind farm by [...]
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, The People’s Daily, is reporting that China plans to increase installed capacity of its offshore wind power sector to 30 gigawatts by 2020 with investments of almost $16 billion in US dollars. China is new to the offshore wind energy market with only 142,500 kilowatts of installed capacity at [...]
Matt Rand, director of global shark conservation for the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to an announcement by the Taiwan Fisheries Agency that it will impose a ban next year on shark finning—the practice of slicing off the animal’s fins on-board and then throwing away the body at sea—and mandate [...]
Fifteen days after a tanker ran aground on a barrier reef in New Zealand spilling 35 tons of oil and fuel into the ocean, the island nation is still struggling to deal with the impact. Here is the latest update: More than 1,000 sea birds have died as a result of the oil spill. 1260 [...]
New Zealand is home to some of the most picturesque land in the world and is now confronting the worst maritime environmental disaster in their history. The Kiwi’s plight does not come as a result of drilling for oil off their beautiful coast but instead from a 775 foot cargo ship flying the flag of [...]
A New Zealand designed and developed wave power device has won a prestigious grant totaling more than NZ$2 million from the US Department of Energy for a project to deploy its device in the United States. Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ) has developed a ¼-scale wave power device which produces 2kW of power. It has been deployed [...]
Several parties in China are planning to sue U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips over the oil spill from two of the company’s platforms in Bohai Bay, off the Chinese coast. The site is operated jointly by a Chinese subsidiary of ConocoPhillips and its partner, the National Offshore Oil Corporation of China. According to ConocoPhillips, more than [...]
According to Australia’s ABC news, eight years after it was abandoned due to cost overruns, the large scale tidal power plant in the Kimberley region is back on the agenda. The developer, Tidal Energy Australia, has reapplied for environmental approval for the project. The $400 million project would be the world’s third largest at a [...]
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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