Tidal Power: Still Expensive, Still Unlikely To Contribute Much
GE, among others, is hoping to build a 320 MW tidal generation plant in Wales. How much will it actually generate at what cost and will it actually reduce CO2 emissions?
GE, among others, is hoping to build a 320 MW tidal generation plant in Wales. How much will it actually generate at what cost and will it actually reduce CO2 emissions?
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 US wave energy company Columbia Power Technologies gets a big thumbs up to continue work on its StingRAY wave energy converter, #thanksobama!
Keystone, schmeystone, Part Deux: marine energy is yet another vast untapped clean power resource in the USA and the Obama Administration is tapping it.
A new ocean energy device that imitates kelp has just been deployed under water off the Australia coast, where it will generate electricity from swells.
Ocean energy has been relegated to wallflower status at the COP21 Paris climate talks, but it gets a moment in the sun on the Breakthrough TV series.
This new wave energy device will be connected to an onshore grid at a US Marine Corps base, making it the first in the US to get third-party validation.
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. Compared to some of the other renewable energy technologies, such as solar and wind, wave energy is still in its infancy (OK, maybe its early adolescence), and so far, wave energy advances haven’t yet come close to producing a cost-effective solution for electricity production. And yet … [continued]
The US Navy has just pumped $3 million into a new full scale demonstration of the StingRAY wave energy converter by the company Columbia Power.
Atlantis Resources Limited, owner of development rights to the Pentland Firth, has awarded Zurich-based ABB the contract to install tidal power conversion and grid connection systems for the four-turbine, 6-megawatt demonstration phase of the MeyGen tidal stream project. ABB is the world’s premier maker of power grids and a well-known multinational engineering company. … [continued]