tidal energy News
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Signs tidal energy agreement with bougainville government
Australian tidal energy developer, MAKO Tidal Turbines Pty Ltd, has signed an exclusive agreement with the the Autonomous Bougainville Government to study the tidal energy potential in the Buka Passage, install a demonstration turbine and participate in developing a renewables-based electricity grid plan for the ...
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London: ITES 2017
Hydroquest took part in the International Tidal Energy Summit 2017, an international meeting for tidal turbine market ...
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Leading tidal stakeholders to collaborate in London
Recent predictions for the growth of the tidal industry have been highly positive, with trade body Renewable UK estimating the industry to be worth £6billion by 2035 to the UK economy alone. However, project and technology developers are still facing significant challenges in delivering commercial scale arrays. While technology is advancing slowly to a stage whereby it can generate power at ...
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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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€46.8m 'Game-Changing' Tidal Energy Project Approved for Channel Regions
Interreg France (Channel) England Program, an EU program set up to foster economic development around the Channel regions of the UK and France, has approved the biggest ever Interreg project which will be a game-changer for the tidal stream energy sector. The Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project, known as TIGER, is an ambitious 46.8m project, of which 28m comes from the European Regional ...
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Mako joins austen Program
MAKO Tidal Turbines (MTT) has become a key participant in AUSTEn, the Australian Maritime College’s tidal resource and energy feasibility research ...
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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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Carbon Trust grant to support first Welsh tidal stream energy device
Environmental impact assessment to benefit wider marine energy industry The Carbon Trust has offered a grant of up to £390k through its Entrepreneurs Fast Track service to Cardiff-based Tidal Energy Ltd. The grant represents up to 60% of the funding needed to monitor the environmental impacts associated with the deployment of Wales’s first tidal stream renewable energy device at ...
By Carbon Trust
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GBP 8m project to help unlock potential of marine energy launched by The Energy Technologies Institute
An £8 million project that will produce tools capable of accurately estimating the energy yield of major wave and tidal stream energy has been approved by the Energy Technologies Institute.Performance Assessment of Wave and Tidal Array Systems (PerAWaT), a project led by Garrad Hassan, and including EDF Energy, EON, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast ...
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Underwater kites set to power all households in city the size of Newcastle by 2020
Carbon Trust provides £350,000 grant for first seagoing trials of innovative tidal energy device Tidal energy device developer Minesto UK Ltd is receiving a grant of up to £350,000 from the Carbon Trust funded by Invest Northern Ireland to deploy the first seagoing prototype of its innovative seakite technology – ‘Deep Green’. The device works like a kite, ...
By Carbon Trust
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Waveroller Featured In Physics World And Wave & Tidal Energy Network
Physics World on overcoming wave energy engineering challenges Water covers about 70% of the planet, and much of it, driven by the Sun, is in constant motion. For at least 200 years, visionaries have dreamt of harnessing this “blue energy” and using it to power the world. But engineering challenges in these environments – especially at sea – can be vast. Discover more ...
By AW-Energy Oy
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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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Historic Wave Energy Legislation Initiative Takes a Significant Step Forward in California
Eco Wave Power Global AB applauds the introduction of California Senate Bill 605 – Wave and Tidal Energy – by California State Senator Steve Padilla of Chula Vista. The bill aims to promote and facilitate the development and growth of wave energy in the state, which will help California reach its ambitious clean energy goals. The bill, introduced by State Senator Padilla on February 15, calls for ...
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SIMEC Atlantis enters French joint venture to build new tidal project
U.K. headquartered SIMEC Atlantis Energy, the tidal energy projects developer, has reportedly entered into a new joint venture with the Development Agency for Normandy (AD Normandy) for developing a tidal power project in Raz Blanchard, Normandy. Regional investment fund Normandie Participations is also a partner in the venture besides AD Normandy, which is an economic development agency. The new ...
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Government Support for Offshore Wind Creates Massive Economic Opportunity for Britain
RenewableUK says the UK government's announcement on November 9 of the next round of competitive auctions to support offshore wind will provide a boost for British industry. "It's great news that the Government is supporting offshore wind. This will enable our world-leading industry to deliver significant investment to the UK. The competitive auction process is continuing to drive down the cost ...
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RPC enters Renewable Energy Market - Tidal Energy
Elemental Energy Technology, RPC Technologies and ATSA have recently generated a peak 2 kilowatt of power from their conjunctly developed tidal turbine generator: the Sea Urchin 550.This test was conducted at Forgacs in Newcastle (Australia) before a group of international investors and China, Japan and India licensees on the 5th of April 2011 This milestone marked the successful completion of ...
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Australian tidal energy know-how for japanese islands
Elemental Energy Technologies Ltd (EET) has entered into an agreement with a consortium based in Japan’s Kagoshima province to demonstrate its MAKO tidal turbines in the constantly flowing Kuroshio current off southern ...
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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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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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World’s first commercial tidal energy scheme to be launched in North Wales
npower renewables, the British subsidiary of RWE Innogy, and Bristol-based tidal power developers Marine Current Turbines (MCT), have announced a pioneering partnership to help deliver one of the world’s first commercial-scale tidal stream projects, off the coast of Anglesey, north Wales. This exciting and innovative showcase tidal farm scheme would be capable of generating 10.5 megawatts (MW) ...
By RWE AG
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