France Launches €1.35 Billion Clean Energy Program
The French government announced a huge investment package for renewable energy last week, totaling €1.35 billion ($1.73 billion). The money is to be invested over the next 4 years.
The French government announced a huge investment package for renewable energy last week, totaling €1.35 billion ($1.73 billion). The money is to be invested over the next 4 years.
The world’s largest tidal turbine was unveiled last week in Invergordon, Scotland. The AK1000, as it is called, developed by Atlantis Resources Corporation, will be installed on the sea bed and connected to the grid later this summer. The turbine can reportedly generate enough electricity to power more than 1,000 … [continued]
As the Gulf of Mexico slowly recovers from BP’s disastrous oil spill, the U.S. Department of Energy has emerged with a way out of this mess: it has just designated the Center for Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University as a national center for revving up the commercialization of … [continued]
[social_buttons] China is clearly taking a lead on solar and wind energy. However, in the smaller but growing field of marine energy, it has been somewhat invisible. That is changing now. Israeli marine renewables firm SDE Energy has announced that it will be completing construction of a 1MW marine power … [continued]
Solving our energy crisis requires serious manpower— and serious incentives. That’s why Scotland has launched the $15 million (€10 million) Saltire Prize Challenge to create commercially viable wave or tidal power.