The SeaWEED wave energy converter generates electricity by floating on the surface of the ocean and riding over the rising and falling motion of waves, and has the power capacity of 750 kW. Each SeaWEED unit consists of four modules that are connected by truss structures. The four module array inclu
Sabella has placed an order to MacArtney Group to supply the connectivity solution GreenLink that will enable Sabella to feed the electricity produced from its D10 turbines to the French grid. Sabella has secured the funds to install and test its full scale Sabella D10 tidal turbine with the capacit
Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) will be the first keynote speaker at the POWER-GEN Europe and Renewable Energy World Europe conference 2015 in Amsterdam. Maria van der Hoeven took office as Executive Director in September 2011. Her work at the IEA in
Atmocean is aiming to deploy a scaled wave energy demonstration system off the coast of Peru early in May, 2015. Fully commercial Atmocean’s wave energy system would consist of 15 buoys that would have a rated capacity of 0.5 MW. The system being prepared for deployment off Peru is a scaled 1/3 demo
The proposed Ocean Energy Test Bed will be used for the purposes of testing, demonstrating and validation of renewable energy devices and marine environmental sensors and technologies. The Marine Institute, in collaboration with Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the Hydraulics and Mari
The trial phase for the proposed wave energy plant at Ada Estuary, Ghana, is scheduled to begin next month. The first phase of wave energy generation trials will begin with the construction of 8MW power plant and the production is expected to increase up to 1,000MW by the end of 2015. Installation w
Havkraft and Kvernevik Engineering have transformed a fishing vessel into a wave energy plant. The idea came from Havkraft’s CEO Geir Arne Solheim. The developers have installed four large chambers in the vessel’s bow. As the waves strike the vessel, the water level in the chambers rises. This creat
General Electric and Andritz Hydro have been chosen to supply 16 bidirectional turbines for the GBP 1 bln Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. Two companies have jointly secured GBP 300 mln worth contract, and have committed to use a majority of British large turbine components, British generators, and
GDF Suez has chosen Atlanpole as its first regional partner for developing innovative projects, in the marine renewables sector particularly. Over the last twenty years Atlanpole has overseen the creation of more than 220 innovative businesses – the experience which will now be placed at disposition
A DeltaStream unit is comprised of a steel main base that can carry up to three turbines with the total capacity of 1.2 MW. The triangular steel main base serves as a sea bed support foot structure that includes a penetrating tip designed to penetrate into the sea bed surface under the weight of the
This Invitation to Tender is made for a consultancy project that will provide the service of a Secretariat for the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) Ocean Energy, which covers both wave and tidal energy. ORJIP Ocean Energy is a UK-wide programme, jointly funded by the Crown Estate
College of the North Atlantic’s Wave Energy Research Centre (WERC) was one of the research projects presented to federal ministers and dignitaries at the Parliament of Canada. The event was organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Senior researchers from
Vattenfall and Pelamis Wave Power are to appoint a liquidator to close Aegir Wave Power Ltd, a company that was supposed to develop Shetland wave farm. Aegir Wave Power is a joint venture launched by Pelamis Wave Power and Vattenfall to develop a 10 MW wave farm off Shetland. Vattenfall said that th
Alstom has developed Oceade 18 – 1.4 MW, a new tidal turbine, with improved design based on the Alstom’s experience with 1 MW tidal stream turbine. The Oceade tidal stream turbine has the capacity of 1.4 MW with a rotor diameter of 18 m. It has three variable pitching blades, and is equipped with pl
