The government of Scotland is looking to boost the country’s still-nascent wave energy industry via the creation of a new organization dedicated to just such a purpose, according to recent reports. Ironically, reports of this development surfaced shortly after the Edinburgh-based developer Pelamis went into administration. Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus … [continued]
The Scottish government has made grants totaling 7.9 million pounds to five wave and tidal power companies. These grants are the second round of the Wave & Tidal Energy: Research, Development & Demonstration Support (WATERS) funding. Grants were made to two wave energy companies and three working on tidal … [continued]
Scotland opened its first — and the world’s largest — marine energy park earlier this week. The Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Energy Park (MEP) is expected to have a power capacity of up to 1.6 GW. The UK leads tidal power in the world, with 46 power … [continued]
In a sign that wave and tidal stream renewable energy technology may be poised to come of age, Vattenfall, Europe’s sixth-largest power utility, Spanish multinational renewable energy developer Abengoa, and UK-based international engineering firm Babcock have joined to form Nautimus, a Scottish company that will provide engineering, procurement, integration and construction (EPC) services for utilities’ wave power and tidal stream projects. […]
Jointly developing the Costa Head wave energy farm project, SSE Renewables, Alstom and AWS Ocean Energy will work together in carrying out detailed site surveys and an environmental impact assessment before moving forward with planned deployment of an initial AWS-III floating wave energy turbine array with a capacity of 10-MW off the Orkney coast.
