Posted in tidal and currents, wave, tagged DECC, marine action plan, UK on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
22 September 2009 – Speech – David Kidney at WATTS 2009 7th Annual Wave and Tidal Technology Symposium
I’m delighted to be here today to open this seventh Annual Wave and Tidal Technology Symposium.
I’m sure today’s conference will provide an ideal opportunity for catching up on developments and for networkinig: renew acquaintances, meet new people and [...]
Posted in infrastructure, offshore wind, tidal and currents, wave, tagged distribution on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OPT sees interest for its Underwater Substation Pod
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has highlighted the utility of an underwater substation device. The Pennington, New Jersey-based company says such device is often “overlooked”.
The company has developed an innovative Underwater Substation Pod (USP) as an environmentally responsible means of networking and transmitting offshore power and data to onshore [...]
Posted in tidal and currents on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Southampton University moves ahead with its project
Southampton University has shared that discussions are on with the South East England Development Agency and the Isle of Wight Council over the construction of a proposed tidal energy marine platform for extended sea trials of tidal energy devices.
The University, according to a report filed by Isle of Wight [...]
Posted in thermo, tidal and currents, wave on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
18 September 2009
Interest in wave and tidal energy systems is gathering pace as a huge number devices move from the drawing board, through prototype and testing phases and on to commercial developments.
by David Appleyard, Associate Editor London, UK [Renewable Energy World Magazine]
Like many of the current crop of ‘cutting edge’ renewable energy technologies, the concept of [...]
Posted in offshore wind, tidal and currents, tagged comparisons on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Southampton University asserts pre-eminence of Tidal Energy
(UK) — Tidal power researchers at Southampton University favour marine current turbines over offshore wind farms to provide predictable energy. Research at the University suggested that marine current turbines had the potential to access four times more energy than offshore wind turbines.
“Marine current turbines have many advantages compared to [...]
Posted in infrastructure, tidal and currents, wave, tagged moorings on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New investment to focus on finding innovative and cost-effective ways to install and maintain large-scale offshore devices
The Carbon Trust is to support two cutting edge marine energy devices in a bid to accelerate the commercial development of wave and tidal energy in the UK. Projects to be supported through the Marine Energy Accelerator with [...]
Posted in infrastructure, tagged supergrid on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Renewables special: Euro vision | 10 September 2009 | By Ed Owen
Linking national grids to form a European supergrid to promote the effective use of sustainable energy would meet our electricity needs and environmental targets at a stroke. Ed Owen takes a closer look at the proposition.
The latest thinking on a European supergrid comes from [...]
Posted in offshore wind on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
London Array gets green light
12 May, 2009 | By Alexandra Wynne
The massive London Array offshore windfarm last week secured €2.2bn (£1.97bn) of funding from project developers E.On, Dong and Masdar.
The first phase will involve building the first 630MW of capacity for the 1GW wind farm in the Thames Estuary. Once complete, it will provide enough [...]
Posted in offshore wind on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Floating wind turbine unveiled
10 September, 2009
The world’s first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been put into operation in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.
Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro said the Hywind turbine is 213 feet tall and weighs 5,300 tons. It is situated seven miles off the island of Karmoey, near the country’s [...]
Posted in tidal and currents, wave, tagged funding, UK on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
22 September 2009
Wave and tidal developers are invited from today to bid for £22 million in new government funding to accelerate the commercial development of marine energy in the UK.
The Marine Renewables Proving Fund, announced in July as part of the Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy, will be designed and delivered by the Carbon Trust and [...]
