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In Marine Current Energy, Siemens Wants To Lead
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
Rethinking Global Clean Energy Innovation
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
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
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
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
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]
S.Korea to invest $1 billion in tidal power plants
Reuters has a report on South Korean plans to build 520 MW of tidal power generation over the next 4 years - S.Korea to invest $1 billion in tidal power plants. Korea 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... [read more]
Thermopower Waves: A New Discovery at MIT
Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling "thermopower waves." A thermal wave is a moving pulse of heat that travels along microscopic wires known as... [read more]
Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'
The Guardian reports that north sea countries are planning a "vast clean energy project" - Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'. It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the... [read more]
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