Ocean Renewable Power to deploy US ocean energy device

13th 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.

Carbon Trust invests in tidal power projects to boost UK wave energy

11th 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.

NewNet Investor Profile: Nigel Meir, Ludgate Environmental Fund

21st 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.’

Northwest Regional Development Agency commissions tidal energy feasibility study

7th 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.

World Energy Research to finance Blue Energy Canada’s 200MW tidal power project

7th July 2009

World Energy Research will finance Blue Energy Canada’s first 200MW commercial tidal power project at a cost of half a billion dollars.

Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy receives £10.3m in funding

3rd July 2009

The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy, set up two years ago by the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth will receive £10.3m in funding for marine energy research.

Wave technology company Ocean Power Technologies makes two new additions to board of directors

3rd April 2009

Ocean Power Technologies, a wave energy technology company, has appointed Mark Robert Draper and Joseph Victor Chatigny as executive and non-executive members respectively of the board of directors.

New fund established to support UK tidal energy projects

2nd April 2009

A new £500,000 fund has been launched in the UK to help environmental entrepreneurs and small businesses develop their ideas to generate electricity from the River Severn’s tidal power. The £500,000 scheme is being managed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Welsh Assembly Government, Defra, and the South West of England Regional Development Agency.

Aquamarine Power to concentrate on tidal wave energy technology

2nd April 2009

Scottish marine energy company Aquamarine Power is focusing its efforts on the development and commercialisation of its Oyster Wave Energy Converter technology, the company said. As a result, the company will cease production of its tidal stream device, Neptune.

Partrac carries out tidal energy study on Welsh farm site for SeaGen

1st April 2009

Partrac, a UK oceanographic and marine geoscience consultancy contractor, was commissioned by SeaGen Wales to carry out a study on tidal energy and the wave climate for a proposed tidal energy farm.

Listed wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies receives additional $1.1m from US Navy

1st April 2009

US listed wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has received additional funding of $1.1m for its on-going project with the US Navy to demonstrate the company’s PowerBuoy wave energy system off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Atlantis Resources Corporation secures $14m funding for European tidal power projects

30th March 2009

Atlantis Resources Corporation, a developer of tidal current turbines, has completed a $14m funding round and added Norwegian renewable energy company Statkraft as a new partner and lead investor in the fundraising.

US Department of the Interior and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission join forces to create offshore renewable energy

18th March 2009

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Acting Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Jon Wellinghof are working together to generate renewable energy in US offshore waters.

Ventyx US Renewable Energy map reveals staggering growth of wind power

17th March 2009

Ventyx, a US software, data and advisory service provider, has published its fifth edition of the US Renewable Energy map to document the drastic growth in renewable energy.

Green Ocean Energy develops new tidal technology

2nd February 2009

Green Ocean Energy, a Scottish renewable energy company, has developed a wave power machine designed to be attached to a wind turbine to provide wave and tidal energy together.

UK DECC on a mission to generate power from the Severn estuary

27th January 2009

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change has proposed a shortlist of schemes to generate clean electricity from the tidal waves in the Severn estuary.

Marine Current Turbines, Minas Basin Pulp and Power team up on tidal power

27th January 2009

UK tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines, has struck up a partnership with Canada’s Minas Basin Pulp and Power Company to develop tidal power facilities in Canada’s Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia.