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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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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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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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C-Power Wins DOE Funding for H3 StingRAY Design
Announcement: C·Power Wins DOE Funding for H3 StingRAY Design. The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded DOE funding for design of the H3 StingRAY! Congrats to the project PI Pukha Lenee-Bluhm! Congrats to rest of the team as well! #waveenergy #doe #marinehydrokinetic “WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for up to $24.9 million ...
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Wave Energy Device Deployed Off Oregon Coast
NEWPORT, Oregon, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - Finavera Renewables Inc. has successfully deployed and commissioned the first commercial scale wave energy converter off the west coast of North America. The company plans the phased installation of a multi-device wave park and commercial electricity generation by 2010. The wave energy converter, called the AquaBuOY 2.0, is situated two and a half ...
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Wave Energy Gets Ready for a Big First
By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NREL Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are helping four promising wave energy devices prepare to survive a big first. The four will be the first technologies to face the waves at PacWave South, a new grid-connected wave energy test site off the Oregon coast that opens in 2025. NREL's pre-PacWave lab support, which is funded by the U.S. ...
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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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Oyster® Wave Power Device wins Innovator of the Year 2009
Aquamarine Power (“Aquamarine”) has been celebrated as a leading force in the UK’s renewable energy sector, winning the coveted ‘Innovator Award 2009’ for its market leading Oyster® wave energy converter at this year’s British Renewable Energy Awards. Aquamarine competed against seven other shortlisted nominees to win the award which honours outstanding excellence in innovative features of ...
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Jacobs to advance development of new water tidal turbine technology
A Jacobs-led consortium of industry and academic organizations has been awarded funding from the U.K. government to help develop a new type of water turbine designed to improve the viability and potential of U.K. tidal range power projects. The $1 million U.K. Research and Innovation fund (UKRI) SMART grant will support Jacobs' industrial research with Severn Estuary Tidal Bar Limited, in ...
By Jacobs
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Elementary School TAG Students Tour Ohmsett
Ohmsett, Leonardo, New Jersey - On May 16, 2017 a group of very bright third grade students from the Talented and Gifted Program at Menlo Park Elementary School in Edison, New Jersey visited Ohmsett to learn about oil spills. As part of their Engineering curriculum, the students are studying "A Slick Solution -Oil Spill Cleanup Engineering" where they are focusing on the understanding of ...
By OHMSETT
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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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National Wind Technology Center Begins First Validation of Wave Energy Conversion Device
The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has begun validation work on the first water power technology ever tested in an NREL dynamometer facility. “Though designed to benefit the wind industry, the NWTC’s large dynamometer facility is being leveraged to help advance new ocean energy technology,” ...
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National Wind Technology Center begins first Validation of Wave Energy Conversion Device
The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has begun validation work on the first water power technology ever tested in an NREL dynamometer facility. Representatives from Columbia Power Technologies, NREL and project partners celebrate the start of generator testing for the Columbia Power wave energy generator. "Though ...
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DOE Program Awards NREL $3.2 Million for Selected Energy Research
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received more than $3.2 million from the Technology Commercialization Fund within the U.S. Department of Energy to fund a dozen technology maturation projects.The announcement from the Department of Energy (DOE) this week noted another 65 projects at 11 other national laboratories will receive about $21 million in funds. The Technology ...
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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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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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Ocean Power Technologies Deploys Autonomous PowerBuoy for US Navy Maritime Security Program
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT) (“OPT” or “the Company”), a leading wave energy technology company, is pleased to announce the deployment for sea trials of a unique autonomous wave energy device, marking an important milestone in the expansion of the Company’s PowerBuoy product line. LEAP Autonomous PowerBuoy Deployed off ...
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IBM, Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland Focus on Renewable Energy
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) are working together to understand and minimize the environmental impact of converting wave energy into electricity. This project, the first to use real-time streaming analytics for monitoring underwater noise generated by wave energy conversion devices, represents a significant step toward the ability to successfully and ...
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Global Ocean Energy Report
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Ocean Energy Report http://www.reportlinker.com/p01094730/Global-Ocean-Energy-Report.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy This new report looks at the key market drivers for the global Ocean Energy market, developments and future projections. 2009 was a ...
By ReportLinker
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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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