Carnegie Wave Energy, a wave energy technology developer, has formally secured the vessel for the deployment of the commercial scale CETO 3 unit off the coast of Western Australia.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) was today welcomed as the first Australian not-for-profit into the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). This announcement reinforces the economic and environmental significance of the Great Barrier Reef on a global scale.
The GBRF was recognised for its plan to bring an innovative financing mechanism in the form of a bond, which subject to Government approval, has the potential to deliver a highly replicable funding solution for a range of environmental and social issues globally.
Shark attack survivors hailing from five countries are pushing the United Nations to adopt measures to protect sharks. The survivors-turned-advocates, brought together by the Pew Environment Group, are calling for countries to end the fishing of sharks threatened or near-threatened with extinction, stop the practice of finning and better manage fisheries to ensure long-term sustainability.
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.
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.
Australian Wave Energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX:CWE)is pleased to announce it has been granted a wave energy licence from the Government of New South Wales in Australia for a potential wave energy project site south of Sydney, off Eden, in New South Wales.
Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has been granted an investigation license and option to lease from the Victorian government for three potential wave energy sites off Victoria at Portland, Warrnambool and Phillip Island. Tenure was awarded by the Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change under section 138 of the Land Act 1958, [...]
A$5 million wave energy project off Port Kembla, Australia is facing a setback after it broke free from its moorings and crashed into rocks in rough seas. The barge-like prototype, one of the first of its type in the world, snapped free of pylons 150m offshore about 1.30pm and was swept into the eastern breakwall, [...]
Australian authorities are racing to prevent a Chinese bulk coal carrier from breaking apart and causing an environmental disaster to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the wonders of the natural world and a designated World Heritage Site. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the Chinese-registered Shen Neng 1 was off course and travelling at full [...]
Australian ocean energy company, BioPower Systems has announced that it had secured land access, onshore development rights and project intellectual property for a commercial-scale wave energy site located near the town of Port Fairy, Victoria. The site offers unobstructed exposure to the immense wave power resource produced by the Southern Ocean. “This stretch of coastline [...]
Australia’s ocean energy company, BioPower Systems, today announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Spanish Global Project Development Company Elecnor SA. The MOU establishes a process for the two companies to work towards agreements for development of wave energy projects using BioPower’s proprietary bioWAVE™ technology in Elecnor’s core business regions; [...]
It seemed appropriate, the day after BP’s announcement of an oil discovery 35,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, to report on a massive oil spill off the northwest coast of Australia, which will continue leaking oil for a total of eight weeks before the well can be capped. The leaking oil [...]
Recently the Washington State government announced that it will be funding a 50 Mwatt demonstration wave energy plant along its coast. Wave Energy Developer Carnegie Corporation Limited (ASX:CNM) has advised the Western Australian State Government that it will receive $12.5 million from the State’s Low Emissions Energy Development (LEED) fund. The planned commercial demonstration Wave Energy project has the [...]
BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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