Posts Tagged ‘tidal power’
29 November 2011
UK marine services company Fugro Seacore has competed installation of three sets of foundations for wave energy developer Aquamarine Power at the European Marine Energy Centre test site in Orkney, Scotland.
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23 November 2011
Dutch offshore energy company Bluewater Energy has secured a tidal demonstration birth at the European Marine Energy Centre at Orkney, Scotland, for its floating tidal energy converter.
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15 November 2011
The marine energy sector in Europe should reach commericalisation by 2015, according to a number of industry experts.
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10 October 2011
A company that is looking to develop a tidal energy project in the UK may look for financiers if environmental studies prove successful.
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1 September 2011
The UK must not make the same mistake it did with wind power if it is to continue its leadership in the marine energy industry, according to Martin McAdam, CEO of wave energy company Aquamarine Power.
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28 June 2011
The Department for Energy and Climate Change has made £20m available for the development of marine power in the UK.
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1 April 2011
The search for organisations and consortia capable of designing and demonstrating low-cost commercial scale tidal stream energy converter arrays by the Energy Technologies Institute has begun.
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13 January 2011
The Chief Minister of East Indian state Gujarat, Narendra Modi, has given the green light to a 50MW tidal power project to be constructed in the Gulf of Kutch that may quintuple in capacity in the future.
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4 January 2011
New York-based Verdant Power has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that would allow the company to install up to 30 new tidal power turbines in the East Channel of the East River in New York.
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1 November 2010
A consortium that plans to go ahead with a ten-mile Severn Barrage tidal project in the UK is now in talks with private investors after the government pulled its support last month.
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28 October 2010
The Crown Estate has awarded a lease agreement for the Inner Sound tidal project to MeyGen, a joint venture between Atlantis, independent power generation company International Power and investment bank Morgan Stanley.
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20 September 2010
The UK must act now to capitalise on its natural advantages in the nascent wave and tidal power industry, according to a report by wave power developer Aquamarine.
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10 September 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $37m in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies.
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17 May 2010
UK renewable energy services group Subocean has opened an office in Germany and appointed a business regional manager as part of its strategy for growth in Europe as it assesses the US market as way to diversify its business portfolio.
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11 May 2010
Irish independent energy firm Energia has signed a preliminary off-take energy purchase agreement with US company Ocean Energy Systems (OES), which manufacturers a wave energy converter to produce electricity.
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20 April 2010
A new design for a floating tidal-stream power generator may solve the maintenance issues that plague existing offshore turbine systems, according to UK manufacturer TidalStream.
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13 November 2009
Tidal power company Ocean Renewable Power will deploy the largest ocean energy device ever installed in US waters, the Energy Tide 2, in Cobscook Bay, Maine, in early 2010.
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11 September 2009
The Carbon Trust is to support two cutting edge marine energy devices with an aim to accelerate the commercial development of wave and tidal energy in the UK.
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21 July 2009
Nigel Meir of Ludgate Environmental Fund looks at which areas are particularly attractive in the economic downturn, which countries are soaring ahead in the clean energy race and why management plays such an important role.
'You are far, far better off with a decent idea but a fantastic management team than with the greatest idea anyone has ever had, but with a poor management team.'
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7 July 2009
The Northwest Regional Development Agency, together with Scottish Enterprise and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, have agreed to commission a £100,000 feasibility study to evaluate options for introducing tidal energy on the Solway Firth.
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