Ocean Energy

Minesto Successfully “Flies” Marine Energy Kite

Thursday, 30 August 2018 REM Following a thorough commissioning program of the company’s first device of the Deep Green technology at utility scale, which generates clean electricity from tidal streams and ocean currents, Swedish ...

Scotrenewables Tidal Achieves Record Level of Power Generation

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 REM Scotrenewables Tidal Power has set another record with its first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine with the unit clocking up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European ...

Enel and Carnegie Clean Energy to Collaborate on Wave Energy Generator Development

Friday, 03 August 2018 REM Enel Green Power and Australian renewable developer Carnegie Clean Energy Limited have signed a Collaboration Agreement aimed at developing and testing CCE’s CETO 6 wave energy generator. Under the agreement, ...

OES Releases Spotlight on Ocean Energy Report

Friday, 27 July 2018 REM Ocean Energy Systems, an intergovernmental collaboration consisting of over 20 member countries including the United States, has released the Spotlight on Ocean Energy report, which provides detailed ...

SINN Power Achieves Breakthrough in Ocean Wave Energy

Thursday, 05 July 2018 Dan McCue

The second generation of Germany’s SINN Power wave energy technology, funded by the German Federal Government, was successfully put into operation recently in Heraklion, Greece.

Australia

MTT and Gladstone Ports collaborate to investigate how tidal energy can contribute to the Australian energy mix

Monday, 25 June 2018 Robin Whitlock Australian-based tidal energy company Mako Tidal Turbines Pty Ltd (MTT) and Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) are to undertake a six-month tidal turbine demonstration at the Port of Gladstone to investigate ...

Futuristic Hotel Will Harness the Tides to Produce Energy

Thursday, 14 June 2018 Dan McCue The Harmonic Turbine Tidal Hotel, envisioned for Yalong Bay, on the island of Hainan in the South China Sea, will harness tidal energy to generate electricity. The hotel’s expected completion date is ...

ITEG project launched in Orkney, Scotland

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 Robin Whitlock An 11 million euro Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project has been launched in Orkney in order to develop an all-in-one solution for the generation of clean predictable energy, grid management, and the ...

Energy Department Selects Six Awardees for $6.7 Million

Monday, 11 June 2018 Dan McCue The US Department of Energy will provide a total of $6.7 million in federal funding to six recipients for development of innovative technologies capable of generating electricity from U.S. water resources. ...

Tidal Lagoon Has Potential to Boost North Wales Economy

Friday, 01 June 2018 REM A proposed North Wales tidal lagoon has the potential to create over 20,000 jobs and generate more than £11 billion ($14.6 billion) for the regional economy as well as pumping 2.5 GW of electricity into ...