Norway trials osmotic power
A marine power plant that uses osmosis to generate electricity is being trialled in Norway …… The plant, built and operated by Norwegian energy company Statkraft not far from Oslo, employs a technique known as osmotic power generation, which uses the difference in salinity between seawater and fresh water to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
Click here for full storyAccording to World Energy Council many of the best locations on the world for wave energy exploitation are placed on Australia’s southern coast. Scientists have mapped out Australian south coast from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania to mark best places for generating electricity from wave energy and concluded that there can be generated five times more electricity than Australia’s current consumption.
Click here for full storyFederal officials are trying to secure $400,000 for the city of Reedsport. They say the funding will increase the likelihood that proposed wave energy projects will bring jobs to the South Coast by next year. Energy developers and government officials hope demand for wave-generated electricity will make Oregon’s coast home to a new industry.
Click here for full storyIn Australia, wave energy is quickly emerging as a potential and viable renewable energy source for generating electricity. The World Energy Council has identified the southern margin of Australia as one among the world’s promising sites towards wave-energy generation.
Click here for full storyResearchers say ocean waves off the southern coast of Australia have the potential to generate as much as half of the country's current electricity needs.
Click here for full storyAustralian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation's southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania.
Click here for full storyThe world's largest tidal turbine was yesterday unveiled at a facility in Invergordon, Scotland, marking the culmination of a decade of development activity and moving tidal power one step closer to commercial viability.
Click here for full storyA renewable energy company has unveiled what it says is the largest and most powerful tidal turbine ever built.
Click here for full storyOcean Power Technologies, Inc. has signed a groundbreaking Settlement Agreement with 11 federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project at Reedsport, Oregon. This agreement represents a major step towards the grant of the first license ever issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a commercial-scale wave power project in the US.
Click here for full storyA project to harness wave energy on the Chatham Islands has been awarded funding under the government's Marine Energy Deployment Fund, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.
The proposal put forward by Chatham Islands Marine Energy Ltd (CHIME), to install a shore-based device to capture wave energy, has been awarded $2.16 million, subject to conditions, including receiving resource consent.
Click here for full storyCarnegie Wave Energy Ltd., the Australian marine energy project developer, has won A$250,000 ($226,000) in government funding for a trial desalination project it aims to integrate with wave-power technology.
Click here for full storySubocean won the 'Best Company' accolade at last month’s Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) British Renewable Energy Awards.
Click here for full storyGov. John Baldacci today signed a memorandum of understanding with Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter to share information on tidal power and offshore wind energy. Maine Gov. John Baldacci is pledging to work with the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on issues related to generating electricity from the ocean.
Click here for full storyWoodside Petroleum Ltd has undertaken informal discussions with renewable energy company Tidal Power over the possibility of using its technology to provide power for the oil producer's James Point LNG project, the Australian Financial Review reports.
Tidal Energy is the operator of a stalled $400 million tidal river energy project in the Kimberley region, which it says could supply a small portion of the proposed LNG operation's total electricity requirements.
Click here for full storyParis Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin has announced plans for the French city to join Alaska, New York, and Ontario in turning to hydropower for a renewable energy solution. Bids to install turbines under several bridges in the Seine river are due by September of this year with project completion scheduled for the spring. As hydropower turns away from huge hydroelectric dams and reservoirs that permanently alter the landscape, it is becoming a popular source of green energy.
Click here for full storyThe historical Seine River in Paris will receive an installment of eight turbines underneath the city's bridges in an effort to raise energy from river currents.
Click here for full storyIt is off of Australia's abundant coastline that the renewable energy of wave power is harnessed. Since agreeing to the Kyoto Protocol, Australia has made great strides in the advancement of wave-power.
Click here for full storyAustralian 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.
Click here for full storyEnergy industry leaders are urging subsea businesses to get involved in the rapidly growing offshore renewables energy sector. "Enormous opportunities" exist for subsea companies who are willing to seize the work, said Andrew Donaldson, Offshore Engineering Manager of Scottish Southern Energy.
Click here for full storyOceanlinx; named one of the world’s Top Ten Renewable Energy Investments by the UN, needs to go back to the drawing board to iron out some kinks in the design of its 2.5 MW wave energy power station.
Click here for full storyMike Ottaviano believes Australia’s southern oceans are the best on the planet to drive a renewable energy revolution that could cut the nation’s greenhouse emissions and provide a reliable source of base-load electricity.
Click here for full storyNot only is Australia a large land mass that constitutes an entire country and continent, it is also a rather large island with miles and miles of shoreline. It is off of Australia's abundant coastline that the renewable energy of wave power is harnessed. Since agreeing to the Kyoto Protocol, Australia has made great strides in the advancement of wave power.
Click here for full storyWhen Christopher R. Sauer stands before the swirling waters of the Western Passage and describes his company’s alternative energy vision, he doesn’t see an army of wind turbines or banks of solar cells.
Click here for full storyLike a deep-sea fisherman of the past, UK-based Aquamarine Power believes it has conquered the cruel environment of the world’s oceans to bring almost limitless clean energy ashore.
Click here for full storyAn energy company has lodged an application to build a $5 million wave-generation plant in the Chatham Islands. Chatham Islands Marine Energy Limited director Garry Venus says the planned wave generation plant would complement two wind turbines, and could be set up by 2012.
Click here for full storyNASA, the U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy.
Click here for full storyGeoscience Australia and the Australian Bureau for Agriculture and Resource Economics recently undertook an initiative, The Australian Energy Resource Assessment study, at the request of the Australian government’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.
Click here for full storyIt seemed a day that was better suited to formally launch a new wind farm than the country’s first grid-connected wave energy plant: a stiff breeze blew across the factories and smelters that make Port Kembla one of the most energy and emissions-intensive regions in the country, but the ocean itself was calm – not big enough even to pack the long-board.
Click here for full storyThe era of commercial wave farms off Scotland's coast has come a step closer following ScottishPower Renewables' purchase of a second-generation "sea snake" device from Leith-based Pelamis. The P2 Pelamis wave generator will be tested in the stormy seas off Orkney from summer 2011, with a view to maximising performance and proving its commercial viability in different sea conditions ahead of full commercial deployment. ScottishPower is to pay Pelamis £5 million for the device, with 40 per cent coming from the Scottish Government's Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme. The cost of the device is expected to come down substantially should it enter mass production.
Click here for full storyKorea Western Power Corp (WP) will invest a total of 1.22 trillion won ($1.07 billion) to build 20 tidal power plants likely from next year through 2014, the government and officials at the utility said. The power plants, to be located in about 200 km southwest of Seoul, will have a total capacity of 520 megawatts (MW), the world's largest, they said.
Click here for full storyWave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has shared that its Perth Wave Energy Project is currently meeting all development milestones as scheduled.
Click here for full storyGeoscience Australia and the Australian Bureau for Agriculture and Resource Economics recently undertook an initiative, The Australian Energy Resource Assessment study, at the request of the Australian government’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.
Click here for full storyWave energy is among the impressive list of renewable energy resources that is being developed in the United States. New Jersey-based developer, Ocean Power Technologies has launched a project that features the nation’s first commercial wave power farm off the coast of Reedsport, Oregon.
Click here for full storyAustralian 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.
Click here for full storyConstruction has begun off Oregon on what would be the nation's first commercial wave-energy farm, said Sean O'Neill, president of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition, a Maryland-based trade association that promotes marine energy. It is planned to supply energy to about 400 homes.
Click here for full storyWave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has formally launched its Perth Wave Energy Project, the first commercial-scale wave energy unit to be deployed in Australia.
Click here for full storyThere are renewed calls for Dunedin to consider investing in tidal power generation in Otago Harbour, stimulated by progress towards a $600 million scheme north of Auckland.
Auckland-based power company Crest Energy is seeking consent for a 200-turbine, 200-megawatt scheme, costing about $600 million, at the entrance to Kaipara Harbour.
Click here for full storyThe state government and Carnegie Wave Energy have celebrated the next stage in the development of a five megawatt demonstration wave power station near Garden Island. Over the weekend, Energy Minister Peter Collier, Environment Minister Donna Faragher and Carnegie celebrated the installation of a mooring off Garden Island for a prototype CETO (wave energy converter) unit, which coincides with the official launch of the wave energy project.
Click here for full storyAustralian Wave Energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has raised $5.365 million in a heavily oversubscribed Share Purchase Plan to assist the deployment and testing of commercial-scale CETO Wave Energy units in Western Australia.
Click here for full storyRenewable Energy Holdings, announced that its thirty one percent owned clean tech wave power manufacturer Carnegie Wave Energy is about ready to launch the initial commercial sized wave energy system in the waters off of Australia.
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