As sea levels continue to rise, what are coastal communities doing to adapt to and mitigate a situation that could result in the eventual displacement of millions of Americans and destroy beaches and coastal ecosystems? Leading government officials, policy-makers, scientists, insurance experts and others will join together at a conference on Nantucket on September 24 to explore [...]
France has unveiled a new renewable energy investment program which will see its government provide E1.35 billion to support the development of cutting-edge clean energy technologies.
Research published online yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that 13 elements classified as priority pollutants (PPEs) by the US Environmental Protection Agency were found in the Athabasca River in the province of Alberta, Canada. Seven of these were present at high enough concentrations to put aquatic life at risk. The findings are also of concern to human health. The list of pollutants include mercury, arsenic and lead.
The energy giant said it was no longer planning to try and win an exploration licence in Greenland, , Britain’s Guardian daily said. ”We are not participating in the bid round,” a spokesman for the British firm told the paper without giving details on why the decision was taken. This news comes as the Scottish exploration [...]
Solar Inspired Energy Inc. (SIE Inc), the owner of the SIE-CAT Wave Energy Accumulator technology seeks to identify individuals or corporations interested in partnering, acquiring, or licensing this unique and proprietary Intellectual Property (IP), thus ensuring the realization of successful commercialization.
Duke Energy Carolinas will no longer pursue a plan to place up to three demonstration wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound. Instead, the company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will refocus their collaboration to study and help enable large-scale offshore wind development on the ocean side of the North Carolina coast.
The revelation that British government ministers are gathering views from industry and the scientific community about “peak oil”, the point at which oil production reaches its maximum and then declines, has prompted speculations about their concerned for a future supply crunch.
Atlantis Resources unveiled its AK-1000 tidal turbine at Invergordon last week. The device is thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world. Trials on the device will be run at a European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland.
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature made this July the second warmest on record, behind 1998, and the warmest averaged January-July on record. The global average land surface temperature for July and January–July was warmest on record. The global ocean surface temperature for July was the fifth warmest, and for January–July 2010 was the second warmest on record, behind 1998.
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.
Pelamis Wave Power is the first developer to be awarded ‘Official Saltire Prize Competitor’ status from the Scottish Government for their wave farm project at Farr Point, Sutherland.
More than 275,000 people and leading scientific and conservation organisations from the UK and around the world have called on the UK government to establish a protected area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is comprised of the Chagos Islands and its surrounding waters. If established, the Chagos Protected Area would be the [...]
IBERDROLA RENOVABLES, through its ScottishPower Renewables subsidiary, and Vattenfall have set up a 50/50 joint venture, East Anglia Offshore Wind, to develop this project off the coast of East Anglia. Over the past 12 months, both companies have worked with the Crown Estate in assessing the zone. Studies have revealed the significant energy potential of [...]
For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution (JR) were at work investigating sea-level change in a region called the Canterbury Basin. It proved to be a record-breaking trip for [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will receive more than $9 million over three years from a Department of Energy competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of advanced water power technologies. Sandia, through a partnership with several national laboratories and academic institutions, will lead two of the four topic areas awarded under the grant and [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program recently unveiled a new database containing information on the test capabilities and services of a variety of U.S. hydrodynamic test facilities. The first-of-its-kind database encompasses 81 commercial, academic, and government facilities and offshore berths in 18 states, and will directly facilitate the testing of [...]
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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