wave power News
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PWP Secures Second Order for P2 Machine from ScottishPower Renewables
28 March 2010 - Pelamis Wave Power is delighted to announce a second order for its Pelamis P2 wave energy converter from ScottishPower Renewables, part of Iberdrola Renovables, the largest wind energy company in the world. The order announced today follows an earlier order from E.ON for the first P2 machine which is currently in the final stages of manufacture at PWP’s Leith facility and ...
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Five Months And Going Strong
Five months has passed since Waves4Power connected the wave power plant at Runde to the Norwegian power grid. And it’s over a month since King Harald V – on site in Fosnavåg – inaugurated the continued goal of wave power industrialization in Norway. The wave climate has varied greatly during the five months of interconnection, but we are pleased to note that things are ...
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Royal Inauguration Of Waves4power’s Wave Power System
Together with a 10-year old from the area, His Majesty King Harald of Norway attended the official inauguration of Waves4Power’s wave power system on Thursday, 21 September. It was a festive occasion in Fosnavåg on the Norwegian west coast when His Majesty King Harald opened the wave power system together with Arthur Pettersson-Kieffer, the winner of the drawing contest, the subject ...
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The First Tests of Wave Power at Runde Are Now Accomplished and The Wave Power Buoy Waveel 3.0 is Towed to Fiskåholmen
Waves4Power wave power plant at Runde has produced power since June 2, 2017. The aim of the Runde demonstration system was proof of concept and to gather important data for the development of WaveEL 4.0, Next Generation and serial production of wave power systems. The plan was from the beginning that all tests would be completed before Christmas 2017 and that the wave power buoy WaveEL 3.0 would ...
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Edward Davey sees wave power in action
Secretary of State Edward Davey visited Inverness, Scotland on Saturday for a roundtable discussion on Scottish renewable energy. The conference was a good way for him to meet some of DECC’s key Scottish stakeholders, and to discuss areas of the department’s agenda such as Electricity Market Reform (EMR) and ProjectTransmit. The Secretary of State then went to visit Wavegen ...
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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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Columbia Power and University of Washington complete successful test of low-power wave energy system for DARPA
Columbia Power—the worldwide leader in direct-drive wave-power systems for both utility-scale and low-power applications—is pleased to announce the successful test of an autonomous, low-power wave-energy-system as part of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA) program. The prototype design, build and offshore test was ...
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$1.3m funding for wave power development in Australia
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will use the funding to undertake an innovative wave resource mapping and modelling project. Australia’s only wave power development – Carnegie Wave Energy Limited’s Perth Wave Energy Project off Garden Island in Western Australia – will be monitored as part of the project, allowing CSIRO to improve ...
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Pelamis Wave Power Selects Pulsant to Safeguard Vital Data in the Cloud
Custom built cloud & connectivity solution frees Pelamis engineers to focus on developing renewable energy technology Cloud, connectivity and hosting provider, Pulsant, is supporting Pelamis Wave Power by helping to manage, backup and store data vital to the development of its world-leading wave energy technology. With operations in Edinburgh and Orkneysupporting two Pelamis wave ...
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Ocean Power Technologies Awarded $4.8 Million by US Department of Energy
PENNINGTON, N.J. - Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has won two new funding awards totaling $4.8 million from the US Department of Energy (“DoE”). OPT plans to use the first award, for $2.4 million, in connection with the construction and deployment of one of its PB150 ...
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SDE Energy Forms Joint Venture With Green Energy International
SDE Energy Ltd., the world leader in the planning, construction and marketing of power stations which produce electricity from sea waves, has entered into a joint venture with Green Energy International ("GEI") for the development of a 50 MW sea wave power plant along the coastline of the Republic of Ecuador. The joint-venture company to be formed by SDE and GEI, SDE Ecuador, may also develop ...
By SDE. Ltd
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Eco Wave Power for Its Path-Breaking Innovation in the Field Of Wave Energy Generation
Based on its recent analysis of the wave energy generation market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Eco Wave Power with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation for developing and implementing an all-round solution for effective energy harvesting from waves. "Driven by the energy crisis around the globe, an escalation of activities in newer forms of renewable ...
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Harnessing ocean energy
AlphaMERS Ltd, a Bengaluru based SME has designed, prototyped and tested a device to covert ocean waves into electricity. The device has a seabed unit and surface floats. The 5 kW model tested satisfactorily in artificial wave tank at IIT Madras. The system has a lot of flexibility in customising to wave heights, tidal ranges and depths. AlphaMERS believed this can be useful for ports and Islands ...
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Harnessing wave power with new `oyster` machine
A giant new machine called' Oyster' designed to harness the power of ocean waves and turn it into ‘green' electricity is being installed on the seabed off the Atlantic shores of the Orkney Islands. In autumn 2009 it will undergo demonstration trials to prove whether its innovative technology could lead to a commercial source of renewable energy for use in seashores around the world. In contrast ...
By ScienceDaily
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Marine energy doubled by predicting wave power
The energy generated from our oceans could be doubled using new methods for predicting wave power. Research led by the University of Exeter, published (27 June) in the journal Renewable Energy, could pave the way for significant advancements in marine renewable energy, making it a more viable source of power. The study was carried out by a team of mathematicians and engineers from the University ...
By FLS Energy
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CNNMoney - Turning ocean waves into electricity
There’s another potential power source that’s so plentiful that it covers 71% of the Earth, but it’s been a struggle to tap. Startup Columbia Power is the latest company to dream of harnessing the ocean for electricity. It’s building a wave generator called StingRAY that will float on the ocean’s surface, turning each passing wave to usable power. Keep reading ...
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Ocean Power Technologies Expands Relationship with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
PENNINGTON, N.J. - Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has expanded its relationship with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (“MES”) with the signing of a new contract to develop OPT’s PowerBuoy technology for its application in Japanese sea conditions. Under this ...
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Ocean Power Technologies Signs Historic Stakeholder Agreement for Oregon Wave Energy Project
PENNINGTON, N.J. - Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) (“OPT” or the “Company”) announces that it has signed a groundbreaking Settlement Agreement ("SA") with 11 federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project at Reedsport, Oregon. This agreement represents a major ...
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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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New ideas give energy boost to wave power
All along the coasts of Europe where the Atlantic waves crash onto the shore there are experimental wave power stations producing electricity. Now engineers in Norway and Sweden − two of the countries trying hardest to develop this technology − have announced “breakthroughs” in their methods, which the inventors believe will make wave power competitive. At present, most ...
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