energy from waves News
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Seattle Company Developing Wave-Powered Marine Platform For Ocean Science Application
Oscilla Power, Inc. [OPI] is proud to announce the receipt of a $200k Phase I SBIR grant award from the US Department of Energy to develop a wave energy powered platform for ocean sensing and monitoring systems. This award will help to develop technology that enables offshore instrumentation payloads to be powered by renewable energy from the surrounding ocean waves. During this work OPI will ...
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Eco Wave Power for Its Path-Breaking Innovation in the Field Of Wave Energy Generation
Based on its recent analysis of the wave energy generation market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Eco Wave Power with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation for developing and implementing an all-round solution for effective energy harvesting from waves. "Driven by the energy crisis around the globe, an escalation of activities in newer forms of renewable ...
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Energy Department Announces up to $12 Million for Projects to Advance Wave Energy
The Energy Department announced up to $12 million in new projects to support the development of innovative technologies capable of generating reliable and cost-effective electricity from U.S. water resources. The four projects will advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy technologies, which can harness energy from the nation's oceans and rivers. Two projects will test and validate wave ...
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Oscilla Power Announces Launch of Startengine Investment Opportunity
The goal for this round of fundraising is $3 million with proceeds used to fund the development and deployment of Oscilla’s first utility-scale megawatt-size system in India. OPI has developed the Triton wave energy converter. Known as a ‘multi-mode point absorber’, it consists of a highly optimized surface float and a hanging ring-shaped reaction structure, connected below the ...
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Carbon Trust backs cutting edge marine energy devices to help accelerate commercial deployment
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 Pelamis Wave Power and Marine Current Turbines will focus on installation and maintenance which currently account for up to 50% of the project costs of wave and tidal energy ...
By Carbon Trust
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Carbon Trust to slash costs of marine energy by 20%
£1m Carbon Trust research initiative to reduce costs of marine energy using innovative technologies transferred from traditional industries including aviation, oil and gas.Giant turbine blades developed using technology from the aviation industry and underwater hydraulic power networks as used in the oil and gas industry are just two of the technologies that could be harnessed by the marine ...
By Carbon Trust
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Ocean Wave Energy Company Receives DOE Boost for Energy Storage Technology
Oscilla Power, Inc is pleased to announce that it has been selected for a $1.1 million Phase II SBIR award from the US Department of Energy. This award will help Oscilla develop a novel underwater energy storage technology and investigate how large-scale farms of ocean wave energy devices can be best connected to the grid. This award will allow a continuation of work previously completed by ...
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Spring 2007 Forecast: A Green Planet and Green Economy
(Washington, D.C.) What does it take to build a truly sustainable society that uses clean energy and renewable fuels, and still is profitable for American businesses? It requires tremendous ingenuity and innovation, and on April 24, EPA will show that America has what it takes! Generating energy from ocean waves and producing fuel from algae are just two examples of the innovative and ...
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Oscilla Power to Deploy Triton-C Wave Energy System in Hawaii
Oscilla Power today put its revolutionary new wave energy system, the Triton-C, on a barge to Kaneohe, Hawaii, where it will be deployed offshore of the Marine Corps base and will generate clean, renewable power from the waves of the Pacific Ocean. This is the first commercial-scale demonstration of the Triton technology, which has been under development for more than a decade, supported by the ...
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New ideas give energy boost to wave power
All along the coasts of Europe where the Atlantic waves crash onto the shore there are experimental wave power stations producing electricity. Now engineers in Norway and Sweden − two of the countries trying hardest to develop this technology − have announced “breakthroughs” in their methods, which the inventors believe will make wave power competitive. At present, most ...
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Scaling Up For 2021: Aw-Energy Seeking Growth Capital To Deliver Its First Scheduled Commercial Wave Energy Projects With Its Certified Technology
AW-Energy Oy (AWE), the Finnish global leading wave energy technology company, is using corporate finance advisory firm Fredericks Michael & Co. in New York to identify and approach potential strategic partners and investors for additional growth capital needs in support of the commercial WaveRoller® deliveries scheduled in 2021. With projects in US, Europe and Asia, AWE expect to see ...
By AW-Energy Oy
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First wave energy project provokes federal-state clash
The Washington state Department of Ecology has filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, for reconsideration of a decision that FERC made last month to grant five-year environmental approval for a wave energy project at Makah Bay, in far western Washington state. The license is the first ever issued by the Commission for a wave, tidal or current energy project in the ...
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Projects Seek to Advance Energy Transitions in Remote and Island U.S. Communities
For island and remote communities in the United States, developing resilient electricity infrastructure and energy systems can be fraught with challenges. These locations often rely on expensive, unreliable energy systems that are vulnerable to volatile energy supplies and costs, natural disasters, and impacts from climate change. That's why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ...
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Power Up while Cooling Down
Off-Shore Data Centers, Desalination Plants, Naval Mission Power Platforms, Off-Shore Fish Farms, Carbon Capture and Grid Quality Electricity – With Reliable, Robust OE Technology That Generates Sustainable Power from Waves. Irish marine innovation combined with U.S. engineering prowess is taking shape in an Oregon shipyard, where shipbuilder, Vigor, is constructing a marine hydrokinetic ...
By Ocean Energy
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Europe leading the way in marine energy - study
The sea could supply 20% of UK energy demand and about 10% of world consumption Wave energy sources are not only available in plenty, but are also consistent, predictable and have the highest energy density among all renewable energy sources. The best resource is found between 40-60 degrees of latitude where the available resource is 30 to 70 kW/m, with peaks of 100 kW/m. The potential worldwide ...
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Bombora completes tank testing of a floating hybrid energy platform
As part of the EuropeWave Programme, Bombora Wave Power (Bombora) has successfully completed tank testing of a floating foundation system suitable for the InSPIRE solution, where mWave technology is combined with a wind turbine onto a single floating offshore platform. An adapted version of the semi-submersible INSPIRE platform, developed in partnership with TechnipFMC, underwent tank testing ...
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