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UK Marine Energy Continues Aggressive Expansion

April 19, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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The British government has a launched a £20 million ($32 million) scheme to fund projects for groups of wave machines.The funding money is available for up to two pre-commercial projects and will allow the development of single device prototypes into a cluster of devices. The successful bids will test the operation of their... [read more]

Talking Fukushima One Year On

March 11, 2012 by Dan Yurman
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On the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Dan Yurman takes a look to separate the facts from the fiction. [read more]

Tidal Energy: the Next Wave in Alternative Energy

February 13, 2012 by Antonio Pasolini
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 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued its first pilot project license for a tidal energy project located in New York City’s East River. The project is owned by Verdant Power and is known as the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project. The project’s capacity is 1,050-kilowatts and uses the East River’s... [read more]

In Marine Current Energy, Siemens Wants To Lead

November 7, 2011 by Big Gav
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GreenBang reports that Siemens its expanding its presence in the ocean energy market - In marine current energy, Siemens wants to be 800-lb gorilla.There’s a lot of energy in the world’s oceans, and Siemens wants to play a big part in developing that power for our use.The Germany-based technology giant announced today that it’s taken on... [read more]

Watching the Slow Steady Success of Tidal Power

August 15, 2011 by Barry Greene
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 While reading “Rising tide: Company unveils plans for cutting-edge turbine to be deployed next spring” it spurred some interest on how tidal power continues to slowly move forward. Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) offered an open house to everyone in the Eastport Maine community(1). ORPC’s open house was on their 35-ton... [read more]

Report Shows India Has More Than 7,000 Megawatts of Tidal Power Potential

March 9, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
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A recent study performed by the Indian government shows the country has an estimated 8,000 megawatts of tidal energy potential. According to the assessment, the majority of this potential lies in the Gulf of Cambay where 7,000 megawatts of energy could be reportedly harnessed.  The report also indicates two other areas could be... [read more]

Verdant Applies to Build the United States' First Tidal Power Plant

January 5, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
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In the United States' quest to become a new energy powerhouse, marine energy has been low on the Obama Administration's cleantech priority list.  However, with ever-improving technology capable of more-efficiently capturing the power of moving water, marine energy could very well see a spike in interest from the government as... [read more]

Florida Engineering Students Test Wildlife-Friendly Wave Power System

December 14, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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Unlike solar and wind power, wave energy still hasn’t captured the public imagination… perhaps because it still remains an untapped energy resource. There’s huge potential — over 2 terrawatts worldwide by some estimations — but, like other renewable energy sources, challenges remain. Viable commercial models for harnessing wave energy... [read more]

An ocean home for energy projects

September 19, 2010 by Rich Maltzman
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When you think of the inception of key new technologies, sometimes geography comes to mind. For example – if I was to ask you what area comes to mind when I say “computer chips” you would probably think “Silicon Valley” in California.  A geographic area like that can become a breeding ground for the (hopefully) successful launch of... [read more]

Mega Watt to Mai Tai--How Hawaii Uses Energy

August 30, 2010 by Nathan Temple
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Grab your sunglasses and your sun tan lotion because we are headed to the Hawaiian islands..oh don't forget your calculator.Energy production in HI sparks the imagination.  Think of all the natural resources available: Wind, Solar, Geothermal (big island), Hydro, biomass, ocean thermal, and tidal.  So where then does all the... [read more]

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Rethinking Global Clean Energy Innovation

July 15, 2010 by Lewis Milford
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Successful climate technology innovation may not come from where we most expect it - not from the private sector alone or only from carbon pricing policies. A new report issued by Clean Energy Group (CEG) describes how new innovation models coming from some of the least developed counties are achieving success. These new public-private “innovation system” approaches to accelerate climate technologies in developing countries—using what is being termed “reverse innovation”—could be used by the developed world to overcome similar market barriers for clean energy. [read more]

Texas Firm Wins Approval for Wave-Powered Desalination Plant

June 1, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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SEADOG can be used for desalination or as stand-alone renewable electricity generators One of the biggest problems of large-scale water desalination plants is that they require tremendous amounts of electricity to operate. There have been breakthroughs in desalination technology that have drastically reduced the amount of energy... [read more]

PG&E Dives Headlong Into Wave Power Project

May 12, 2010 by Big Gav
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Renewable Energy World has an article on PG&E's interest in wave power and projected costs of generation across wave power projects globally - Making a Splash: PG&E Dives Headlong Into Wave Power Project. Drawing power from the churning sea can seem as difficult as finding Kraken the mythical sea monster. Despite tales of... [read more]

March Top Ten Players In Green Energy

April 15, 2010 by Terrence Murray
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This month Chevron and its pragmatic green strategy takes the lead of our monthly list. Our ranking takes into account a player’s ability to influence the cleantech industry, whether it be because of a forceful policy position, access to funding or a combination of the two. 1: Chevron Over the last decade, some oil and gas majors... [read more]

TCASE 9: Ocean power II – CETO

April 11, 2010 by Barry Brook
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In TCASE (thinking critically about sustainable energy) #5, I analysed a currently deployed technology for harnessing wave energy – the Pelamis device. If you haven’t read TCASE 5 then please do so now, since it explains some of the basic physical properties of wave energy, the extend of the global resource, etc. In writing the... [read more]