The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in D.C. federal court by conservation groups. In deciding to proceed with Lease [...]
Liquid Robotics®, developer of the award-winning Wave Glider® self-powered hybrid sea-surface/underwater robotic vehicle, and cloud-based data service provider, has closed a Series D $22 million financing round led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, the company’s first institutional investor, together with participation by oilfield services provider Schlumberger.
SeaEnergy PLC has announced that it has reached an agreement to dispose of its entire interest in SeaEnergy Renewables Limited (“SERL”) to Repsol Nuevas Energias SA (“Repsol”), Spain’s largest oil company, at an enterprise value of approximately £50 million.
Aegir Wave Power, a joint venture between Swedish utility Vattenfall AB and Pelamis Wave Power, have today secured an agreement for lease from The Crown Estates for their wave farm project off Shetland.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has approved a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) submitted for the Cape Wind Energy Project, which is required before construction may begin on the generation facility planned in Nantucket Sound.
The RenewableUK group today, release a study showing that employment in the UK wind power industry has increased by 91 percent in the last three years.
This year’s list shows that the nation’s most urgent environmental issues are playing out in the Southeast, especially the way we produce and use energy.
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power today announced its next-generation Oyster wave energy device is to be built in Scotland by leading fabrication contractor Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (“BiFab”). The news follows last week’s announcement of £11 million new investment in Aquamarine Power by multi-national power company ABB and existing shareholders including SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy).
In its quest to become one of the top three countries in the world in terms of offshore wind power generation, the South Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy has announced that offshore wind farms capable of producing the same amount of electricity as two nuclear plants will be built on their southwest coast by 2019.
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.
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.
Accoring to the Tribune Business, Grand Bahama is being eyed as a 2011 first half testing ground for a unique technology that aims to generate electricity from ocean wave kinetic energy.
The Governor of Argentina’s Santa Cruz province, Daniel Peralta; Argentine national fossil fuel company Enarsa’s President, Exequiel Espinosa; and Chilean power generation company, Genersa’s President, Carlos Veronesi; have signed an agreement to carry on a feasibility study for the installation of a tidal power electric central in the Argentine patagonic province’s coast.
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.
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO USA) is holding a news conference to build awareness of the energy crisis and the drastic consequences of shrinking oil supplies on our everyday lives, the economy, the environment and the military.
International Battery is joining hands with Electric Marine Propulsion to build hybrid power units for big boats and yachts. The partnership with EMP will aim to build a hybrid power train for the world’s largest plug-in, hybrid-electric sailboats.
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
UK Government Steps in to Assure Future of Cornwall Wave Hub Site
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