The offshore marine energy project in Cornwall, which allows developers to test new wave energy technology, will be taken on by the Government to secure its future as a vital part of the UK’s green energy sources. Wave Hub provides a shared offshore infrastructure for the demonstration and proving of arrays of wave energy generation devices [...]
Voith Hydro Wavegen, the Inverness-based marine energy company, has cause to celebrate after successfully handing over the world’s first full life wave power plant into commercial operation. The ocean renewable energy industry is moving to the next level with the completion of the first grid-connected marine power plant in Spain. Wavegen was the first company [...]
The Shetland Islands Council and Shetlands Charitable Trust have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sweden’s energy giant Vattenfall, to develop marine renewable energy in the isles. The groups hope they can drive the development of ocean energy in the area while benefitting the community. The initial focus will be on promoting the construction of [...]
The Scottish wave energy company, Aquamarine Power, has closed its office in Newport, Oregon at least for the time being. Aquamarine had established a one-person office in Oregon last year with the intent of deploying its wave energy buoy in the state’s coastal waters, but stated that a lack of certainty regarding the state’s marine [...]
Fortum and DCNS have recently signed a Letter of Intent on cooperation in the field of wave power research and development in France. A joint feasibility study for a wave power demonstration project located in France is planned to be starting by the end of 2011. The project is in line with Fortum’s and DCNS’s ambitions. [...]
British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd, today announces that Siemens is increasing its share in the company to 45%. “With this increase in its stake, Siemens is strengthening its activities in ocean power generation. We will actively shape the commercialization process of innovative marine current power plants,” said Michael Axmann, CFO of the [...]
The Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) unveiled the first U.S. Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) Technology Roadmap. The roadmap describes the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the MHK industry and outlines a clear and logical path to its commercialization. Technologies that capture energy from free-flowing waves, tides and currents represent the potential to provide up to [...]
Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. has announced that it has launched the development of a tidal energy power generation system. Kawasaki is looking to leverage experience in building ocean vessels, marine engines and structures along with their engineering expertise in high efficiency gas turbine power plants to harness the energy of tidal currents. The New [...]
A New Zealand designed and developed wave power device has won a prestigious grant totaling more than NZ$2 million from the US Department of Energy for a project to deploy its device in the United States. Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ) has developed a ¼-scale wave power device which produces 2kW of power. It has been deployed [...]
Wave energy company Aquamarine Power took another major step towards the commercialisation of its Oyster technology with the announcement today of £7 million of new funding and a commitment of further investment in the company from its existing shareholders over the next two years. The company has closed a funding round of £7 million comprising [...]
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin in connection with OPT’s proposed commercial-scale wave power generation project at Reedsport, Oregon. Lockheed Martin will provide design, manufacturing, system integration and supply chain management expertise to enhance OPT’s PowerBuoy(R) technology. This builds on previous work conducted by Lockheed Martin and [...]
The first grid-connected, commercial scale tidal turbine went into opertaion at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland last week. The 1MW device was developed by Atlantis Resources Corporation. The AR1000, as it is called, is a behemoth standing 73 feet off the seabed with an 18 metre rotor diameter. This is great news [...]
Key industry tidal energy experts are set to map out their plans to deliver large scale installation projects for tidal energy devices at the 5th Annual International Tidal Energy Summit and Awards this November. With demonstration tidal projects already producing energy in Europe, America and Asia and the first multi megawatt arrays in the pipeline [...]
In a move that stunned the renewable energy world, the German utility RWE pulled out of the Siadar Wave Energy Project off the coast of the Scottish island of Lewis. The fate of this project is now in the hands of the other developer, Voith Hydro Wavegen, a renewable energy company based in Inverness. Wavegen [...]
Contracts have been awarded to the New England Aquarium and the College of Staten Island to collect migratory and habitat usage data on marine wildlife to help the evaluate sites for future wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Massachusetts. The contracts were awarded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center [...]
As the demand for energy increases worldwide, the search for renewable and viable sources of power intensifies. Two Ryerson University researchers have taken that search underwater, and using Iran as a test case, have found that oceans and lakes could make an enormous contribution to global energy production. “Bodies of water are a huge, untapped [...]
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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