Posts Tagged ‘wave’
25 January 2012
Wave and tidal energy innovators will soon be eligible to bid for £10.5m in funding under a collaborative research and development project to be launched in the UK
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18 January 2012
Water power can potentially provide 15 per cent of the entire energy needs of the US by 2030, according to two new major reports.
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8 December 2011
Europe’s marine energy sector will benefit from a €9m initiative set to ease the testing of tidal and wave devices across the continent.
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16 November 2011
A major power and automation group is looking to make investments in the European tidal and wave industries.
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1 November 2011
Engineering and automotive giant Rolls-Royce told NewNet it expects consolidation to occur in the UK marine energy industry – a sector in which it has experienced recent success.
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27 October 2011
Global conglomerate Rolls-Royce has fed more than 100MWh into the UK grid through its tidal power project, and hopes to install a device twice the size in the coming months.
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24 October 2011
Following the announcement that the Department of Energy and Climate Change was to give the marine sector a funding boost in the UK, wave and tidal technologies have been chosen as the technological focus of a new fund.
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29 September 2011
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is looking to partner with marine energy innovators as it looks to take wave power to the next level and lower the cost of converter systems. It has launched a request for proposals in which it is seeking to work with wave energy technology specialists to reduce the cost of[...]
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25 July 2011
Power utility RWE npower has decided to pull out of Wavegen's 4MW wave energy project, leaving the company seeking a new owner or developer.
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7 July 2011
The Crown Estate, which owns a diverse portfolio of UK land assets and real estate and also manages its sea-bed, earned a record net profit for the 12 months ending in March, underpinned by a profit surge in its marine estate.
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1 July 2011
Australian marine energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has received its third milestone payment as part of its A$12.5m ($13.4m) grant from the state government of Western Australia.
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18 May 2011
First Minister Alex Salmond has pledged to move ‘still faster and further’ to fulfil the Scottish government's target of 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020.
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17 May 2011
The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), a non-profit company owned by oil and gas operators, is edging over to the green side with its first investment in renewable energy.
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17 May 2011
A series of marine ecological surveys are now underway in UK waters as both marine and wind power developers look to win The Crown Estate's Round 3 licensing rights.
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3 May 2011
The UK could capture just under a quarter of the global marine energy market - equivalent to up to £76bn to the UK economy by 2050 - according to new analysis released by the Carbon Trust.
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3 May 2011
UK engineering consultancy Xodus Group has bolstered its renewables credentials by acquiring specialist consultancy James Ingram & Associates.
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19 April 2011
The US Department of Energy has invested $2m in a wave energy project that uses technology developed by IRL in New Zealand.
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14 April 2011
Wave energy’s high capacity factor will lead to it being a widespread source of distributed power generation in the UK, an industry innovator said.
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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
Scotland has been highlighted by the European Commission as a key region for offshore renewable energy potential.
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