marine energy Articles
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Project - Menter Mon Cyf
Customer: Menter Môn Cyf Context: Menter Môn Cyf has been appointed as the Managers for the West Anglesey Demonstration Zone by The Crown Estate. The have established Morlais Marine Energy for the purpose of managing this assignment. Challenge: Menter Môn Cyf needed data and statistics about the wave conditions to present to the potential users of the Demonstration Zone. ...
By Open Ocean
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Marine energy innovation in the UK energy system: financial capital, social capital and interactive learning
Innovation activity in marine energy (wave and tidal stream) has been catalysed by a series of recent UK policy initiatives. However, the wider UK energy system remains substantially oriented to market competition and efficiency. As a result, tensions have emerged between recent R&D activity (especially interactive and collaborative learning) and its economic and institutional context. Drawing on ...
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Supporting wave and tidal energy in the UK - an analysis of UK Policy 2000-2009
In order to stimulate UK based marine energy technology developers, the UK Government launched the Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF) in 2009. This instrument was designed to bridge the gap between early-stage research funding and the recently-criticised Marine Renewables Deployment Fund (MRDF). This paper develops an analysis framework for policy instruments designed to support technology ...
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Key issues of tidal energy and factors affecting it globally with civil structures
This paper focus on some of the key challenges to be met in the development of marine energy, it present prototype form to being a widely deployed contributor to future energy supply of the world. Large-scale wave and tidal current prototypes have been demonstrated around the world, but marine renewable energy technology is still 10-15 years behind that of wind energy. However, having started ...
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Is marine energy about to go mainstream?
Why the costs of wave and tidal power could soon plummet - viewpoint from Dr Stephen Wyatt, Head of Technology Acceleration, Carbon Trust As the marine industry gathers in London for its annual get together one thing is clear; the sector is growing up fast. So fast that it looks like it will soon be defying its critics and getting its feet seriously wet after many years of tests, tanks and ...
By Carbon Trust
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Simulation-based evaluation of tidal current power output characteristics
Tidal current is considered to be one of the promising alternative green energy resources. This paper introduces a simulation based methodology to evaluate tidal current power output characteristics, including capacity factor, and power production variability patterns. Power variability analysis is crucial to grid integration systems design. The proposed methodology is applied to the well known ...
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Fugro acquires consultancy to boost renewables business
Fugro Renewables (Wallingford, U.K.) announced that it has acquired ERT, an Edinburgh-based environmental consulting firm, to complement its suite of services provided to developers of offshore wind, wave, and tidal power projects. “From feasibility studies and initial assessments to site surveys and investigations, construction services, and ultimately, decommissioning, Fugro provides a ...
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Project - RTE
Customer: RTE Context: RTE, the French electricity transmission system operator is in charge of the high voltage grid installation, connection and management onshore and offshore. This includes the connecting of all the marine renewable energy farms being developed in France. Challenge: With the growth of marine renewable energy developments in France with numerous offshore wind and floating ...
By Open Ocean
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A novel FACTS dynamic stabilisation scheme for stand-alone tidal energy conversion systems
Renewable abundant ocean kinetic energy has become increasingly popular as a consequence of strong ecological viable concerns and economical energy solutions in remote island communities. However, the integration of dispersed renewable tidal energy will pose a greater challenge to the power quality of distribution networks in remote areas due to fluctuation of the tidal stream velocity. The paper ...
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A novel particle swarm optimisation self-regulating stand-alone wave energy conversion scheme
The paper presents a novel stabilisation scheme system for a wave energy converter (WEC) using permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG) connected to a six-pulse diode rectifier. The proposed controller of WEC-battery renewable energy system is based on multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO) technique. The optimisation algorithm is implemented to control a novel low cost dynamic AC ...
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Harnessing marine renewable energy from Poole Harbour: a case study
Global warming and its impact on our environment, society and economy is one of the fundamental concerns of our time. In response, the UK Government has implemented numerous targets including the 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on 1990 levels by 2050, and the increase of renewable energy to 15% by 2020. In order to contribute towards these targets, the government may seek to harness ...
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Oceans of Energy
Technologies that harness the energy of moving water or temperature differentials in the oceans promise to deliver abundant carbon-free electricity. Long before humans got hooked on fossil fuels, we learned how to harness the power of water to do work. Rivers ran mills that ground flour, sawed logs or spun looms that transformed fibers into textiles. Later generations realized that moving water ...
By Ensia
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Project - DCNS Energies
Customer: DCNS Energies Context: DCNS Energies is involved in numerous marine renewable energy technology and project developments especially in the tidal, ocean thermal energy conversion, and floating offshore wind sectors. Challenge: Considering the geographical market widespread for these technologies, DCNS Energies needs to identify and characterize offshore sites of interest around the ...
By Open Ocean
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Research and development in ocean energy technologies
The volatile fuel prices for electricity generation, elevated concerns about global warming and energy security has prompted countries to look for alternative energy sources. One of the alternative energy sources is ocean energy. Currently, there is few ocean energy technologies that are commercially available to harness electrical energy from ocean despite the fact that ocean covers more than ...
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AOPS Are Going to Help Transform the Ocean Economy, but What are They?
From electric vehicle charging stations appearing everywhere to the drones Amazon is using to deliver packages in some markets, it is easy to see the electrification transformation that’s occurring on land. But the ocean is out of sight and out of mind, which is why many people don’t know what’s happening in the busy, multitrillion dollar economy operating out there. ...
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Santa Fe company aims to turn motion of waves into electricity
A Santa Fe company plans to turn ocean waves into electricity off Peru’s coast in the spring. Atmocean is run by Philip Kithil, an entrepreneur and inventor. Chris White, a native Santa Fean, works as the project administrator, and both understand the ocean and waves better than most landlocked New Mexicans. “There are a lot of exciting advantages here versus traditional ...
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Department Of Energy awards $18 million to algae biofuel projects
On July 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18 million in funding for six projects to develop bioproducts and biofuels from algae. The funding is intended to reduce the cost of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019 to help reach DOE's target of $3 per gge for advanced algal biofuels by 2030. The projects that were selected for the ...
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DOE provides more renewables funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on September 16 that it will provide nearly $100 million for renewable energy research, including $16.5 million for biomass energy, $30 million for state energy efficiency projects, and $9.6 million for “transformational” energy research, such as airborne wind turbines and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems with non-mechanical sun-tracking ...
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An efficient hybrid wave/photovoltaic scheme for energy supply in remote areas
This paper presents the efficient utilisation of hybrid photovoltaic/wave energy system for desalination water pumping and supplying the local AC and DC loads. The novel hybrid system comprises eight key parts. The PV array and wave energy permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG) as energy sources, novel AC side modulated power filter compensator (MPFC), AC-DC converter, novel DC side green plug ...
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Why it`s time to get serious about wave power
For most of us power from the sea means watching waves crashing on a beach or smashing up against a breakwater. But if you want to experience wave power at its most energetic then you need to be offshore. In fact you need to be over one hundred kilometres offshore. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough, some 180Km from land, encountered the ...
By Carbon Trust
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