 Australian Wave Energy developer, Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, recently announced the formal launch yesterday of its Perth Wave Energy Project. The announcement was made by WesternAustralian Minister for Energy the Honorable Peter Collier at Carnegie’s Wave Energy Research Facility in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Stage one of the project, which has already commenced, involves the deployment of a single stand-alone commercial scale CETO unit in the Sepia Depression, between Garden Island and Five Fathom Bank in 2010. The deployed system will consist of the mooring, a CETO unit and a data telemetry buoy. Deployment of the CETO unit will be for an initial period of up to 12 months involving periodic inspection and maintenance of components.
This will be the first commercial scale wave energy unit to be deployed in Australia.
Continue reading Australia Announces the Launch of it’s First Commercial Scale Wave Energy Project
 Clipper Windpower Marine Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Clipper Windpower, Inc. (‘Clipper’) has announced the groundbreaking of its offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing facility in Neptune Estate, Tyne, UK.
The new factory, a 4000 m2 facility, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2010. The site is owned by the City of Newcastle and is being developed by Shepherd Offshore Services. Assuming expansion of the offshore market is in line with the Government goals and Clipper turbines represent approximately one gigawatt per year of development, the factory is expected to employ a local workforce in excess of 500.
The factory will be used to develop and build blades for the ‘Britannia Project’, a 10 MW offshore wind turbine prototype under development by Clipper. The prototype is scheduled for deployment in late 2012, and is among the largest wind turbines under development in the wind industry. The blades will be 72 metres long and weigh over 30 tonnes.
Continue reading Offshore Wind Turbine Factory Construction Under Way
 OPT is developing the first commercial wave park on the West Coast of the United States located 2.5 miles offshore near Reedsport, Oregon. The wave park will consist of ten (10) PB150 PowerBuoys, an undersea substation to collect the power, and a submarine cable to deliver the renewable power to the Pacific Northwest electric grid. Each PB150 PowerBuoy® has a maximum sustained generating capacity of 150 kiloWatts.
The estimated amount of electricity this project will deliver to the grid is approximately 4,140 MegaWatt-hours/year based on the wave resource at this location, or enough for up to 375 homes. Electricity generated by OPT’s clean, renewable PowerBuoy system will displace 2,110 tons of carbon dioxide annually1. The power created by the Reedsport project is expected to be delivered to the Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative (PNGC Power). The Reedsport preliminary permit application can accommodate up to 50 MW for potential future expansion at this site.
Continue reading Wave Energy Park comes to the Oregon Coast – 4.140 Mwatts-hours per year
 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 energy conversion (WEC) device commercialization.
Continue reading Announcing the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC)
 SeaGen, the world-leading prototype commercial tidal energy turbine designed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has exceeded 1000 hours of operation in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. It is the first and only tidal current or wave energy system in the world to have achieved this milestone.
Continue reading Tidal Energy Turbine Exceeds 1000 hours of Operation Feeding to the Grid
 Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) will unveil the tidal energy company’s underwater electric generator and its Turbine Generator Unit (TGU) support structure in Bangor on Thursday, Feb. 18. The TGU frame, measuring 46 feet wide by 14 feet high, with the 10,000 pound generator mounted at its center, will then be shipped to Eastport, where ORPC’s proprietary hydrokinetic turbines will be installed into the unit prior to deployment in Cobscook Bay in early March.
With a capacity rating of 60 kilowatts, the TGU will be the largest ocean energy device ever deployed in U.S. waters. Christopher Sauer, CEO of ORPC, will present and describe the Turbine Generator Unit at the StillwaterMetalworks facilities, 106 Florida Ave., adjacent to the Bangor Airport, at 1:30 p.m. Representatives of business partners, R&D collaborators, and state and local government will join him for the event. This will be an outdoor event.
Continue reading The Largest Ocean Energy Generator Ever Deployed in U.S. Waters
 Six most promising technologies selected and funded to spearhead UK’s marine drive
Marine energy will be ready for mass scale deployment and an important new commercial UK industry by 2020 says the Carbon Trust, as it announces the six most promising technologies that will today receive new funding to speed up the deployment of full scale prototypes of their leading designs.
Marine energy is currently ten years behind offshore wind energy in its development, but according to the Carbon Trust costs can be dramatically reduced over the next ten years, which could see up to a thousand devices operating in the water by 2020. Today the Carbon Trust announced the six most promising technologies that will be supported with £22m of new funding. Designed and managed by the Carbon Trust, the Marine Renewable Proving Fund (MRPF) uses new funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The MRPF marks a new level of commitment to developing wave and tidal technologies by helping the UK’s most promising technologies to progress towards early stage deployment and accelerating the first commercial projects in UK waters.
Continue reading Ocean Marine Energy to be Ready for Deployment by 2020 according to Industry Experts
 The generation of commercial quantities of electricity from Irish wave power has moved a step closer with the signing of an agreement by Ireland’s leading wave energy development company, Ocean Energy Limited with one of the world’s leading turbine manufacturers, US multinational Dresser-Rand. The move endorses Ocean Energy’s technology and also boosts the Government’s alternative energy strategy.
Ocean Energy has successfully tested its quarter scale Ocean Energy Buoy over the last two and a half years at the Government’s test site in Galway Bay. It is the only device of its type to have undergone and survived such a rigorous testing including coping with a one in 40 year wave during the sea trials.
Continue reading Irish Wave Power Takes a Large Step Forward
 AREVA, via its German subsidiary Multibrid, has successfully installed and commissioned the first six M5000 turbines for the Alpha Ventus project, the first German offshore wind park located in the North Sea, 45 kilometers off the island of Borkum. The group is creating a reference in the offshore wind industry with its 5 MW turbines specially designed for offshore conditions.
This major achievement demonstrates the technical feasibility of AREVA’s M5000 turbine design and confirms the relevance of the associated installation and servicing activities carried out by the group.Under the terms of the contract signed with DOTI*, the six turbines have now entered the test phase scheduled to end this winter.
Continue reading Germany Installs it’s First Offshore Wind Turbines – 5Mwatts Each
 Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. recently announced the successful deployment of one of its PowerBuoys(R) at the Marine Corps Base in Hawaii. The Company has also been awarded $380,000 in additional funding for the PowerBuoy’s commissioning and in-ocean operation.
Building, deployment and operation of this PowerBuoy is part of a program with the US Navy to develop and test OPT’s wave power technology. The Navy’s support for the Hawaii program also reflects its long-term commitment to renewable energy and reducing its dependence on fuel oil shipments. Many of its naval bases around the world are suitable for OPT’s wave power stations.
Continue reading Wave Energy Device Deployed at Hawaii Marine Corp Base
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