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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has signed an exclusive agreement with a consortium of three leading Japanese companies to develop a demonstration wave power station in Japan. The Japanese consortium comprises Idemitsu Kosan Co., Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., and Japan Wind Development Co. (the “Consortium”).
Further, OPT has been invited to become a member of the Tokyo Wave Power Initiative, a committee including the city of Tokyo, regional governments and national agencies involved... [more]
The new Nailsea School for North Somerset Council is one of the first to be built as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF), One School Pathfinder (OSP) programme using the Government’s Partnership for Schools framework that will cater for 1500 pupils. The new development, replacing the current establishment, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, is on the sports ground. On completion, the old school will be demolished by the project’s main contractor Carillion to make way for ne... [more]
Dresser-Rand Company Ltd and Orecon Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding to optimise the chamber and turbine design for their multi-resonant chamber (MRC) wave energy conversion device.
Orecon’s MRC device combines oscillating water column (OWC) technology with Dresser-Rand’s HydroAirTM bidirectional air impulse turbine technology. The OWC is the most successful and extensively studied device for extracting energy from ocean waves. It works on the following principle:
Approachi... [more]
Leading UK and international energy experts agree that technology already exists for a European super grid and that renewable energy is the long-term solution for energy needs. At the fourth Claverton Energy conference, international energy expert Dr Czisch outlined his strategy for a European-wide super grid that would supply all of Europe with entirely renewable electricity. Speaking at the conference, Dr Czisch of Kassel University, Germany, also said the move to a renewable electricity syste... [more]
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has received a US$2.0 million award from the US Department of Energy (DoE), in support of OPT’s wave power project in Reedsport, Oregon.
The DoE grant will be used to help fund the fabrication, assembly and factory testing of the first PowerBuoy® to be installed at the Reedsport site. This system will be a 150 kilowatt-rated PB150 PowerBuoy, major portions of which will be fabricated and integrated in Oregon. This is the first award for the building of ocean wav... [more]
Sustainability will remain at the heart of the construction of the London 2012 Olympic Park, venues and infrastructure with a commitment to recover and reuse or recycle 90 per cent of the waste created through the ‘big build’ phase of the project.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has also developed a new integrated Environment and Sustainability Management System which has been externally audited and certified to the international standard for environmental management systems - ISO 14001... [more]
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