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Ocean Power Technologies deploys wave energy device off Hawaii coast

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) announced on February 1 that it has successfully deployed one of its PowerBuoy wave energy devices about a mile offshore from a U.S. Marine Corps Base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The device generates up to 40 kilowatts of power from the rise and fall of the waves, and since its deployment in December 2009, it has been generating power within ...

Feb. 17, 2010

By U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Converting wave energy to clean water and power

Resolute Marine Energy from Boston USA, won Global Entrepreneurship Week\'s inaugural Startup Open, the competition\'s directors revealed. The company uses the power of the ocean to produce drinkable water and electricity. The small-scale system converts energy from the waves into electrical power or into pressurised seawater, so we can provide both drinking water and clean, more affordable ...

Nov. 22, 2010

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 ...

Jul. 30, 2009

By ScienceDaily

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 ...

Jun. 26, 2012

By FLS Energy

SDE Will Grid India With Sea Wave Power Plants

Cost Price of KW/h is 2 cents, the cost of construction of a facility with a capacity of 1 MW is 1 M $ Delegation of a major Indian automobile manufacturers ...

Sep. 24, 2012

By SDE. Ltd

SIE-CAT wave energy accumulator, technology applications

This unique and proprietary SIE-CAT Wave Energy Accumulator technology, supporting 5 to 10 floats or more as a single array, provides superior results of cost by virtue of its ability to store energy from multiple arrays (mini farm), before Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) to electricity is performed. This two-phase approach to harvesting wave energy introduces a cost effective magnitude-of-scale ...

Aug. 25, 2010

Riding the growth wave with green technology & innovation

Co-located with the Growth, Innovation and Leadership Global Congress on Corporate Growth (GIL 2009: Asia Pacific), Frost & Sullivan's executive symposium titled the Global Green Revolution 2009 will be held on Thursday, October 15, 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The symposium will discuss smart strategies for businesses to seize new opportunities to grow revenue and customer loyalty in ...

Sep. 7, 2009

By Frost & Sullivan

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 ...

Feb. 22, 2015

By Climate News Network

Essential analysis of wave energy

This analysis attempts to focus on the universally accepted Engineering and Physical laws that represent a corner stone of our society. COMMON TERMINOLOGY: The energy in a wave has been calculated and published in the IEA Ocean Energy Systems Report and other Journals, showing values, on a per meter wave frontage, of 2+Kw for 1 meter waves and 75Kw for 5 meter waves. This ...

Aug. 25, 2010

Innovative Wave Power Device Starts Producing Clean Power in Hawaii

With support from the Energy Department and the U.S. Navy, a prototype wave energy device has advanced successfully from initial concept to grid-connected, open-sea pilot testing. The device, called Azura, was recently launched and installed in a 30-meter test berth at the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. This pilot testing is now ...

Jul. 6, 2015

By US Department of Energy

Ocean Power Technologies and Lockheed Martin to Collaborate on Utility Scale PowerBuoy for Oregon Wave Power Project

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT) ("OPT" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) in connection with OPT’s proposed commercial-scale wave power generation project at Reedsport, Oregon. Lockheed Martin will provide design, manufacturing, system integration and supply chain management expertise to enhance ...

Sep. 13, 2011

By Ocean Power Technologies, Inc

Ocean Power Technologies Prepares PowerBuoy Wave Energy Technology for Commercial-Scale Operations, an Industrial Info News Alert

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Ocean Power Technologies Incorporated (NASDAQ:OPTT) (OPT) (Pennington, New Jersey), which designs and produces wave-energy devices for the renewable power sector, yesterday reported ...

Jul. 15, 2011

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 ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By Frost & Sullivan

Making waves work: wave energy trials underway in Wellington

A uniquely ‘Kiwi’ wave energy generator is harnessing the power of waves in Evans Bay Wellington. The device has been developed by Wave Energy Technology New Zealand (WET-NZ) – a partnership between the Crown Research Institutes Industrial Research Limited (IRL), and NIWA, and the Wellington power consultancy Power Projects Limited (PPL). The generator in Evans Bay is an experimental prototype. ...

Aug. 6, 2008

By National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Britain aims to rule the waves again

(AXcess News) London - Britain prided itself on ruling the waves in the 19th century; they might once again in the 21st century. But not with its Navy. This time, Britain's chosen vessels are new technologies that convert the pounding of the waves and the ebbing of tides into the thrum of electricity. While still years behind other alternative-energy forms, wave and tidal power systems are ...

Oct. 17, 2007

By Axcess News

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 step ...

Aug. 4, 2010

By Ocean Power Technologies, Inc

Calling All Coders: Help Advance America`s Wave Power Industry

With more than 50% of the nation's population living within 50 miles of coastlines, we have vast potential to provide clean, renewable electricity to communities and cities across the United States using marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies. To help this emerging industry develop new models and tools that improve the design, development, and optimization of wave ...

Aug. 4, 2014

By US Department of Energy

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 ...

Nov. 13, 2012

By Pelamis Wave Power

How does the SIE-CAT Wave Energy Accumulator technology influence the environment?

Most directly, by ushering in the Hydrogen economy, we can gradually replace all fossil fuel use, and thereby reduce our Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The internal combustion engine would be replaced with fuel cells and electric drives. The massive coal fired generating stations would be replaced with distributed generation utilizing fuel cells. Judicious deployment of this technology as ...

Aug. 25, 2010

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 ...

Oct. 31, 2012

By ReportLinker

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