marine energy News
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Twitter Q&A: Marine Energy
The Carbon Trust's Head of Technology Acceleration, Dr Stephen Wyatt, will be answering your questions on marine energy on Wednesday 3 October. Follow @theCarbonTrust and ask questions in advance using the hashtag #AskCarbon. Have you ever wondered how the power of waves and the tides are being harnessed to produce electricity? The UK has an abundant marine energy resource that could produce ...
By Carbon Trust
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Low carbon shipping - next generation energy systems
Ricardo consortium aims to develop next-generation low carbon marine energy ...
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New UKERC & ETI marine energy roadmap says sector should aim to half costs by end of decade
A new roadmap developed by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has identified the research and development areas that need to be addressed to make marine energy cost competitive with other energy technologies. Marine energy resources, consisting of wave and tidal stream energy, are abundant in UK waters. Although marine technology must secure cost ...
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13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC)
11 September 2019 – The 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) held in Naples at the start of September was sponsored by Enel Green Power (EGP). At the conference, the CEO of EGP, Antonio Cammisecra reminded the audience of why Enel is invested in marine energy: “Stable, predictable and always available: marine energy has enormous potential distributed evenly around ...
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Scotland the
Renewable resources will make Scotland the "Silicon Valley" of marine energy in the same way that hi-tech industries transformed Northern California, the First Minister will say tonight in the keynote speech of his American trade mission. First Minister Alex Salmond will make the claim tonight during a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, the oldest public affairs ...
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Mediterranean Blue Energy Delegation Visit
Last week, Waves4Power hosted a study visit from members of the Maestrale project, part of the Interreg MED Programme. This project aims to lay the basis for a Maritime Energy Deployment Strategy in the Mediterranean. The delegation, from Southern Europe energy agencies, universities and other institutions engaged in marine energy, visited Gothenburg and Waves4Power to study marine energy ...
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Floating concrete - the latest weapon in the climate war
A scheme using floating concrete to harness wave energy has received a £150,000 grant from the Carbon Trust. Bristol-based firm Embley Energy will use the cash to refine the prototype of its wave-energy converter Sperboy and demonstrate whether it can compete with fossil fuels and other renewable energy sources. Embley bosses say Sperboy, a specially-designed buoy, will deliver a cheaper ...
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Maldivian move to marine energy
Scotland will help the Maldives in developing the country’s huge potential in renewable marine energy. A study of the archipelagic country’s wave, tidal and ocean thermal energy will be conducted by Scotland’s Robert Gordon University to establish the potential before adaptations are made. Scotland’s energy minister Jim Mather met with the Maldivian environment minister ...
By SciDev.Net
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Government invests £5m marine energy
The Government today announced a grant of up to £5m to support the continued development of marine energy in the UK. The grant will support the development of a Marine Renewables Business Park at Hayle, in the South West. It is envisaged that the Business Park will act as a focus for the future development of a cluster of businesses based around marine energy. Hayle is close to the pioneering ...
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Funding Boost for Scottish Marine Energy
Scotland’s marine energy sector is to benefit from a £2.8 million share of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) which is run by the Carbon Trust. The news was announced by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing during the RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Belfast today (Wednesday). The MRCF grant funding is critical to facilitating the success of the first ...
By Carbon Trust
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Marine Power (Wave and Tidal) - Installed Capacity, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Profiles of Technology Developers and Key Country Analysis to 2030
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Marine Power (Wave and Tidal) - Installed Capacity, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Profiles of Technology Developers and Key Country Analysis to 2030 ...
By ReportLinker
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Sentosa island demonstration site agreement
A new milestone has been reached for marine renewable energy in Southeast Asia. MAKO Energy Pte Ltd (ME) will be embarking on a tidal energy demonstration project in Singapore using the MAKO.7 tidal turbines, following the signing of a collaboration agreement on 28 November 2018 with the venue host, Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC). ...
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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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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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$45 Million Funding Opportunity to Advance Tidal and Current Energy Planning and Development
The U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) this week (May 8) released a $45 million funding opportunity to advance a comprehensive approach to tidal and current energy development in the United States. Part of President Biden's Invest in America Agenda and funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this opportunity will make the first large-scale investment in a ...
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Minesto selected to present at CleanEquity Monaco 2010
Minesto has been selected to present at CleanEquity Monaco 2010, the foremost event for next generation clean and green technology. The conference takes place March 4th and 5th at the Sporting d'Hiver, Monaco. Minesto, a Swedish and UK based company, develops new technology for electricity generation from slow water currents. This niche opens up entirely new areas for electricity production from ...
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Irish marine energy project developer Simply Blue Energy has found Columbia Power as one of most suitable companies for the development of future commercial wave energy projects.
Columbia Power, along with Sweden-based CorPower, topped the review of available near-commercial wave energy technology suppliers, which was part-financed by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The review, dubbed Horizon Scanning and undertaken by Wave Venture on behalf of SBE, focused on identifying and reviewing the most promising current and forthcoming wave energy ...
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Aquamarine Power announces additional £6 million of funding
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power announces that it has successfully raised an additional £6 million of funding. This follows the recent unveiling of the design of its Oyster 2 device which will be built in Scotland later this year. This new, next generation 800kW device will deliver 250 per cent more power than the original Oyster 1 with only a 50 per cent increase in footprint. ...
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Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (BECRC) Projects
10 June 2020 – Carnegie is pleased to announce its involvement in four short-term scoping projects recently awarded funding by the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (BECRC). The BECRC is coordinating a $300m+ programme to advance Australia’s blue economy in the areas of seafood production, marine renewable energy and offshore engineering. These projects involve collaboration ...
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Our CEO appointed on the Board of Directors of Marine Renewables Canada
Our CEO Dragan Tutic has recently been appointed on the Board of Directors of Marine Renewables Canada together with 3 other new board directors. Marine Renewables Canada is the country’s tidal, offshore wind, wave and river current energy association representing the best interests of the sector to advance the development of a marine renewable energy industry both in Canada ans abroad ...
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