Wales Aims For Piece Of UK Wave Energy Pie, Eyes Global Market
Thousands of terawatts of wave energy are tantalizingly close, and Wales aims to be among the first nations to harvest some of that blue gold.
Thousands of terawatts of wave energy are tantalizingly close, and Wales aims to be among the first nations to harvest some of that blue gold.
Atmocean’s wave energy systems generates fresh water that can be used to cultivate desert or barren shoreline regions with a simple and flexible system, and they are conducting an equity crowdfunding campaign to raise money needed to deploy a full-scale pilot system in Ilo, Peru.
The British Climate Change Minister Greg Barker named the South West of England as home for the UK’s first Marine Energy Park on a visit to Bristol today. The South West Marine Energy Park will stretch from Bristol through to Cornwall and as far as the Isles of Scilly, which, … [continued]
Solar Energy. Wind Energy. Now, Wave Energy. Reminds me of Captain Planet. A Finnish company, AW-Energy, recently signed a $4.4 million (€3 million) contract with the European Union (EU) to implement WaveRoller (wave energy) technology in Portuguese waters. This looks interesting. The location for the project is near a town … [continued]
A new energy fund in the UK is looking to improve wave and tidal energy technologies and help put them into use. The new Marine Renewables Proving Fund contains about $36 million worth of new grants.