hydrokinetic power News
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W2 Energy Completes Construction of WaterHelix
W2 Energy, Inc., (OTC: WTWO) a developer of green energy, is pleased to announce it has completed construction of the WaterHelix (www.waterhelix.com) hydrokinetic power head. On November 1, 2010, W2 Energy purchased pending patents 12/508,990 and 12/696,631, representing designs for a new hydrokinetic power system. This purchase agreement required W2 Energy to build a working version of what it ...
By XFuels Inc.
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BAE Systems: Canadian Renewable Energy Company Receives Significant R&D Backing to Commercialize Its Technology
As part of its continued support of Canada's knowledge-based economy, BAE Systems today announced an agreement to assist the ongoing technical needs of renewable energy company Instream Energy Systems of Vancouver, Canada. Instream specializes in developing and installing the next generation of hydrokinetic power generation systems, which convert the kinetic energy in moving water into ...
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W2 Energy Sells WaterHelix System to Maine BioEnergy
W2 Energy, Inc. (OTC:WTWO) is pleased to announce that it is has sold a WaterHelix hydrokinetic power system to Maine BioEnergy in Naples, Maine. The President of Maine BioEnergy is longtime Maine businessman Robert Fogg, the President of Q-Team Tree Service (www.q-team.com), one of the largest and most established tree removal companies in Maine. Maine BioEnergy will be installing and testing ...
By XFuels Inc.
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Emrgy at the 2019 CRWUA Conference
In mid-December, Emrgy’s sales team and CEO Emily Morris attended the 2019 Colorado River Water Users Association (CRWUA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees were very interested in Emrgy’s distributed hydrokinetic power generators, and the potential for their own canal systems. “We’re thrilled to show many of the largest irrigators in the U.S. how they can ...
By Emrgy Inc.
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Emrgy Inc. Awarded $3.6 Million from ARPA-E for Transformational Energy Technology
Emrgy Inc. announced today that it was awarded $3.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding will be used to develop advanced hydrokinetic turbine, power conversion and system-level control designs for both natural riverine and man-made water infrastructure resources. “ARPA-E takes pride in funding ...
By Emrgy Inc.
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Bourne Introduces Energy Regenerator Technology
There is a close relationship between energy and water. Producing energy uses water, and providing freshwater uses energy. Keeping U.S. power on each day requires the electric sector to withdraw approximately 200 billion gallons of freshwater per day to cool the nation’s nuclear, coal and natural gas power plants. On the flip side, energy is used to treat and pump approximately 400 billion ...
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New developments in hydropower can supercharge Obama’s green jobs plan
The goals of the President’s Green Jobs Plan are to create five million new jobs, repower America, slow global climate change and free America from dependence on imported oil. Now Bourne Energy has developed a series of renewable energy technologies based on hydropower, that will speed up the transition. Hydropower is already the nation’s oldest and largest renewable energy source. It provides ...
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XENDEE Partners with Idaho National Laboratory for Net-Zero Carbon Microgrid Program
XENDEE Corporation and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have partnered to build a design platform for Net-Zero Carbon Microgrids. The platform will consider a wide variety of distributed energy and sustainable technologies, including solar photovoltaic, battery storage, electric vehicle fast-charging stations, hydrokinetic power, hydro-storage, traditional combined heat and power systems, and ...
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Oceana Energy Company Selected to Present at CleanEquity Monaco
Oceana Energy Company will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2012; the conference is on March 29th & 30th at the Sporting d'Hiver, Monaco. Oceana Energy Company (Oceana) was included, by expert selection, as one of the world's most inspiring cleantech companies, to present to industry-specific, senior financial and strategic investors, policy makers, legislators, end users and media. Oceana is ...
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Bourne Energy develops military version of its BackPack power plant
Bourne has completed a new version of its Backpack Power Plant (BPP-1) hydrokinetic system, a zero-fuel continuous 24/7/365 power generator that is ultra-portable. The original 30-pound, 500W BPP-1 has garnered considerable interest for applications ranging from rural electrification to powering remote farms, ranches as well as for emergency power. Bourne’s militarized version has been entirely ...
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Innovative Wave Power Device Starts Producing Clean Power in Hawaii
With support from the Energy Department and the U.S. Navy, a prototype wave energy device has advanced successfully from initial concept to grid-connected, open-sea pilot testing. The device, called Azura, was recently launched and installed in a 30-meter test berth at the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. This pilot testing is now giving ...
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New Request for Information on Strategy to Advance the Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Industry
The Energy Department’s Water Power Program is seeking feedback from the marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders regarding the Program’s activities and priorities in MHK. Feedback will inform the Program’s future strategies and priorities for advancing MHK technologies and accelerating MHK market ...
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FERC, interior department sign agreement on offshore renewable energy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Department of the Interior have formalized an agreement for working cooperatively to lease and license renewable energy projects on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS). Following up on a general agreement reached in March, the two federal agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 9 to clarify each agency's jurisdictional ...
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W2 Energy, Inc. Acquires Hydrokinetic Laboratory, LLC
GUELPH, ON - W2 Energy, Inc., a clean energy company (PINKSHEETS: WTWO), announced today that it has purchased 100% of Hydrokinetic Laboratory, LLC (www.hklabllc.com), developer of the HyPEG underwater power system. W2 Energy, Inc. introduces its new subsidiary, W2 Hydrokinetics (W2H), continuing its clean energy diversity expansion. The HyPEG (hydro kinetically powered electrical generator) ...
By XFuels Inc.
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Department of Energy Awards nearly $7.5 million to help develop next generation wind turbines
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that six projects in four states - California, Colorado, Florida, and New York - have been selected to receive nearly $7.5 million over two years to advance next-generation designs for wind turbine drivetrains. Drivetrains, which include a turbine's gearbox and generator, are at the heart of the turbine and are responsible for producing electricity ...
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Department of energy awards $37 million for Marine and Hydrokinetic energy technology development
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced selections for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from the nation's oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to ...
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Secretary Moniz Awards $125 Million for 41 Transformational Energy Technology Projects Ahead of COP21 in Paris
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced $125 million across 41 cutting-edge energy technologies awarded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). These new projects are funded under ARPA-E’s OPEN 2015 program and come in advance of the COP21 U.N. Climate Negotiations in Paris next week. The announcement was made at D.C. ...
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