A shortage of human capital, especially experienced business leaders, is presenting an obstacle to further growth of the growing clean energy industry, a new study finds. According to a joint report by New Energy Finance and recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles that looks into top-level recruitment in the clean energy sector, the issue is rising [...]
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Posted in Wave Power on 2008-04-15 | No Comments »
Britain is set this week to enter a new age, generating energy directly from the seas that surge around its shores. On Saturday a strange, 122ft- long contraption – looking like an upside-down windmill – will set off from the Belfast dock that built the Titanic to produce the first electricity ever brought ashore from [...]
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Scotland will offer the world’s largest prize to date for spurring advances in marine renewable energy, the country’s head of state announced today. The Saltire Prize, of 20 million U.S. dollars, will go to innovators from any nation who design environmentally friendly ocean technology, such as better ways to harness tidal and wind power. [...]
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Fierce, unforgiving seas surround Ireland’s shores. And that could prove to be a moneymaker for the country. The government, university research departments, and a growing number of entrepreneurs, are collaborating in various ways to tap the power and resources of the ocean. Wavebob and Ocean Energy, for instance, have installed wave power prototypes in Galway [...]
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Hydroelectric power has been around for decades, but an emerging technology is taking hold to capture energy from the ocean’s crashing waves. Several start-ups have begun deploying buoys that harness energy from wave movement in coastal areas of the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. The energy is then sent back ashore via underwater [...]
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Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-19 | No Comments »
Hydroelectric power has been around for decades, but an emerging technology is taking hold to capture energy from the ocean’s crashing waves.Several start-ups have begun deploying buoys that harness energy from wave movement in coastal areas of the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. The energy is then sent back ashore via underwater cables.
Ocean [...]
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Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-17 | No Comments »
Renewable Energy Holdings PLC (REH) has deployed a second CETO II Wave Energy prototype off the CETO test site, at Fremantle in Western Australia. The development follows the deployment of the first CETO II prototype unit in January and a third unit will be deployed in the near future.
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A cooperation agreement covering the development of wave power technology has been signed by Swedish utility company Vattenfall AB and Wavebob Ltd of Ireland. Under the terms of the agreement the two companies will collaborate on bringing prototype wave power devices to readiness for full-scale commercial wave power farms.
The agreement [...]
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Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
The renewables unit of Spanish utility Iberdrola has begun testing a wave energy pilot plant in Santona, Cantabria. The company has begun on-shore testing of the operation of the internal components of the first buoy, manufactured in the United States and named Power Take Off (PTO).
The installation will be [...]
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Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Wave power is the most promising source of ocean energy for South Africa and a “very conservative” estimate is that some 8000 to 10,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity could be generated from the Cape’s West and South Coasts, says eminent marine engineer Professor Deon Retief. Retief headed the Stellenbosch Wave Energy Converter project, which was [...]
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