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 [...]
Oregon State University (OSU) and University of Washington (UW) are partnering to develop the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) with a full range of capabilities to support wave and tidal energy development for the United States.
NNMREC activities are structured to close key gaps in understanding, inform regulatory and policy decisions, and facilitate wave [...]
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth. It might also represent the most prolific cradle for new types of animals on the planet, according to new research published in the January 8th edition of Science.
The Scientific American reports “in the oceans, new species and genera tend to originate in the tropics [...]
In an effort to plug gaps in knowledge about key ocean processes, the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s division of ocean sciences has awarded nearly $1 million to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. The Scripps marine scientists will develop a new breed of ocean-probing instruments. Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks [...]
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been awarded $3.45 million over three years to examine the environmental impacts of marine and power. The project will include field tests to investigate the risks that these kinds of power generation can have on the environment and wildlife.
The bulk of the funding – $3.45 million, or $1.15 million [...]
A movie review is not something I would normally undertake, but having just seen “Wild Ocean” at our local Science Centre Imax theatre, I felt compelled to share the experience. “Wild Ocean” provides an incredible sensory experience.
The awe-inspiring cinematography, the soundtrack mixing native African singers and orchestral arrangements together with a non-biased educational element make this movie a must see [...]
The 61st annual International Whaling Commission meeting will conclude its week long proceedings in Madeira, Portugal today. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which was signed in Washington DC on 2nd December 1946. The purpose of the Convention was to provide for the proper conservation [...]
The Town of Wiscasset, Maine and Chewonki Foundation recently announced that the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) has issued a preliminary permit to study the use of tidal currents in the Sheepscot River for electrical generation. If approved, the proposed current power project would be comprised of 4 to 40 turbines with a total peak generating [...]
A proposal to generate electricity from wave energy has been awarded $760,000 under the New Zealand government’s Marine Energy Deployment Fund, was recently announced by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.The WET-NZ project involves constructing and deploying a pre-commercial, half-scale device with a peak capacity of 20 kilowatts.The WET-NZ project put forward by Power Projects [...]
England’s Marine Current Turbines has won the Renewable Energy Association’s Developer of the Year Award. The award recognised the company’s successful design, deployment and operation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal current energy system. SeaGen, the world’s first and so far only commercial-scale tidal current energy system, was installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough last year and [...]