offshore tidal News
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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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Scottish Firm Claims Commercial Tidal Power Breakthrough
Guardian: World First for Shetlands in Tidal Power Breakthrough A power company in Shetland has claimed a breakthrough in the race to develop viable offshore tidal stations after successfully feeding electricity to local homes. Nova Innovation said it had deployed the world’s first fully operational array of tidal power turbines in the Bluemull Sound between the islands of Unst and Yell ...
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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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EnergyOcean international 2011
The 8th Annual EnergyOcean International Conference & Exhibition is gearing up to return to the state of Maine! Hundreds of industry stakeholders representing every aspect of the Offshore Renewable Energy Industry will unite for EnergyOcean International's technical program which is established as the primary educational platform and networking forum for the industry. Prominent speakers will ...
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ScottishPower Renewables Welcomes Hammerfest Strøm`s Commitment to the Scottish Reneweble Energy Sector
ScottishPower Renewables’ Managing Director Keith Anderson joined First Minister Alex Salmond in Oslo today (Tuesday 17th August) as the Norwegian tidal-power developer Hammerfest Strøm announced major contracts worth £4m to construct the first of their advanced HS1000 tidal turbines in Scotland. Fife-based Burntisland Fabrication Limited (BiFab) has been awarded the largest ...
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Davey – plan for energy infrastructure increases investor certainty and keeps bills down
Investors will receive further certainty today of how the government will support investment in new energy infrastructure through the Energy Bill. Investors will receive further certainty today of how the government will support investment in new energy infrastructure through the Energy Bill, in order to keep the lights on and bills and emissions down. The draft Electricity Market Reform ...
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Intertek Strengthens its Renewable Energy Expertise with Acquisition of Metoc
LONDON - Intertek, a leading international provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries, has acquired Metoc plc , a provider of engineering and environmental consultancy services to the renewable energy infrastructure sector worldwide. Metoc employs around 80 people in the UK across sites in Hampshire, Cardiff and Dundee. The acquisition will bring Intertek’s ...
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Dounreay skills can harness power of the sea
Skills built up in Britain’s most successful nuclear decommissioning project can power Scotland’s new era in electricity from the sea, industrialists in Aberdeen heard today. Almost 2000 workers are dismantling the experimental fast reactor site at Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland, just a few miles from the Pentland Firth where plans are taking shape for the world’s biggest underwater ...
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Cranfield joint research to inform EU policy on marine renewable energy
A consortium of nine organisations from across Europe will investigate the environmental impact of noise, vibration and electromagnetic emissions from renewable energy devices on marine life. Marine renewable energy devices (MREDs) such as wind turbines are planned in Europe to address the growing requirement for alternative sources of energy. However, little is known about the impact during ...
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Latest UK Energy Stats Show Wind Leading the Way - While Coal Drops to Almost Nothing
RenewableUK is highlighting new energy statistics released by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Government’s latest Energy Trends report shows 35.5% of the UK’s electricity was generated by renewables in the second quarter of the year, up 3.5% from the same period last year. The report notes that “wind generation that was the driving factor” ...
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ETI announces technology project to significantly reduce subsea cable costs for marine energy devices
A project which could considerably reduce the cost of cabling from offshore wave and tidal farms to the shore has been announced by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).This 18 month project, costing £1.1m and led by MacArtney, will develop an 11kV wet-mate connector, which will be tested and demonstrated under workshop and real-sea conditions.The connectors enable two power cables to be ...
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MTS Technology Enables Innovation In Offshore Renewable Energy
MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced that the MTS Non-Torque Loading (NTL) System has been installed and accepted at the 3MW Drive Train Test Facility (3 megawatt) of the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), located in Blyth, Northumberland, UK. The MTS NTL system is used to apply complex, ...
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NREL employees honored for advancing industry
Professional organizations recently honored four employees from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for advancing renewable energy research and furthering their professions. Thresher Inducted into Engineering Hall of Fame Bob Thresher, a NREL Research Fellow, was recently inducted into Oregon State University's (OSU) Engineering Hall of Fame. ...
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Carbon Trust hosts first UK demonstration of innovative access vessel for offshore wind industry
Today the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of an innovative new vessel designed to reach offshore wind farms more cheaply and easily. The Wave Craft, developed by Norwegian shipbuilder Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), was put through its paces at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. Umoe Mandal's Wave Craft was a finalist in ...
By Carbon Trust
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New energy infrastructure investment to fuel recovery
Government action to unlock up to £110 billion energy infrastructure investment and support up to 250,000 jobs by 2020 Capacity Market to be initiated in 2014 to bring on gas and other flexible electricity supply to meet future demand and reduce risks to security of supply from winter 2018 Renewable Strike Prices to help renewables contribute more than 30% of total power by 2020 The ...
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Clean Tech Revolution: The GBP 70bn race is on
New economic analysis shows UK can profit from leading the world in offshore wind and wave power. The UK can profit from leading the world in the clean tech revolution, new analysis from the Carbon Trust reveals today, quantifying for the first time the economic benefits of investing in a range of clean technologies. By taking a bold new approach to commercialisation, the UK could generate up to ...
By Carbon Trust
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Chris Huhne, daily telegraph article: the biggest electricity reform in twenty five years
Britain’s electricity market faces three challenges. First, our demand for electricity could double by 2050 as we shift from fossil fuels to electricity for our vehicles and our residual home heating. Secondly, around a quarter of our generating capacity is ageing plant that will shut down within ten years, and has to be replaced. Thirdly, that replacement cycle – entailing some ...
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Carbon Trust hosts first UK demonstration of innovative access vessel for offshore wind industry
Today the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of an innovative new vessel designed to reach offshore wind farms more cheaply and easily. The Wave Craft, developed by Norwegian shipbuilder Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), was put through its paces at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. Umoe Mandal's Wave Craft was a finalist in ...
By Carbon Trust
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EU Ocean Energy Association conference
Introduction Good morning. It is a great pleasure for me to be here today to address you at the 2013 Ocean Energy Europe conference. I am delighted that the EU Ocean Energy Association chose the UK to host the conference for the first time ever outside of Brussels. This illustrates the strong role that the UK has been playing and continues to play in supporting the development of ocean energy. ...
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Poll highlights Public Support for Renewables
A poll has found that three quarters of the UK is in favour of renewable energy. 76% of respondents surveyed by the government “support the use of renewable energy for providing our electricity, fuel and heat”, according to new figures. This is the same level of support as the last time Decc's quarterly Public Attitudes Tracking Survey was conducted. The latest edition, which ...
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