Latest Wave and tidal power News
International Water Summit launched in Abu Dhabi
The launch of the International Water Summit was announced collaboratively in january by the Abu Dhabi government, Masdar and the International Water Association, providing a global platform to discuss and find solutions to the global challenges of water scarcity and security. The inaugural summit will take place alongside the World Future Energy Summit 2013 in Abu Dhabi. “The launch of the International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi is a bold and... [more]
Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in instalments on the energy bill. The Green Deal... [more]
Carbon free energy system presented at Energy Roadmap 2050
In March 2011, the European Commission published the overall decarbonisation roadmap covering the whole economy. All sectors, power generation, transport, residential, industry and agriculture, were analysed. The Commission has also been preparing sectoral roadmaps, among which the Energy Roadmap 2050 is the last one, focusing on the whole energy sector. In order to cut emissions by over 80% by 2050, Europe's energy production will have to be... [more]
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
The new power mix in Germany – what does it mean for the rest of Europe?
In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe’s future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this fusing of interests required more than in Germany, in the light of the government’s decision to phase out all nuclear power by 2022. The case for integration is now compelling and is something that a... [more]
Other Wave and tidal power news and reviews
New report studies wave and tidal energy
The U.S. Department of Energy released two reports last week detailing the country's ocean wave and tidal resource energy potential.
Tide May Be Turning for Power Generated by Moon and Waves
According to the studies, wave and tidal power could generate about 1,420 terawatt hours, or TWh, of electricity per year. The U.S. uses 4,000 TWh each year.
New energy secretary confirms green targets
LONDON (Reuters) - Newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey on Monday confirmed the country's commitment to its green energy targets and its focus on growing the offshore wind power generation capacities. "There may have been a change at the helm, but there'll be no change in direction or ambition," he said at the Building Research Establishment's Innovation Park near ...
Ecotricity set to harness wave power
Green energy company Ecotricity has today (January 23) unveiled plans to install 200 wave power devices off the UK coast as it looks to grow its portfolio of wind and tidal technologies.
Report highlights California's huge 'wave power' potential
A new report by the Department of Energy says that waves off California's 1,100-mile coastline could generate over 140 terawatt hours of electricity per year -- enough to power 14 million homes -- if tidal and wave energy was developed to its maximum potential.
DOE reports: Maine could generate 10% of all tidal power
Maine has the potential to produce 10 percent of the nation's tidal power energy, or 15 terrawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to recent reports by the U.S. Department of Energy.
'Bicycle pump' to turn wave power into clean energy
Searaser device that pumps saltwater to an onshore generator has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers An aquatic "bicycle pump" is set to take to the seas and turn wave power into clean electricity after being acquired by green energy company Ecotricity . The Searaser device, which pumps saltwater to an onshore generator, has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers ...
Aquarium hooks up to tidal power in green energy boost
A PIONEERING tidal power generator that will soon provide half the electricity used by The Deep aquarium in Hull has been towed into position in the River Humber.
First UK marine energy park to be built in south west
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's first marine energy park will be developed in the south west of the country, in a bid to speed up the commercial expansion of the wave and tidal industry from 2020, the government said on Monday. Over the past seven years, over 100 million pounds have been invested in the south west marine energy industry. The park will stretch from Bristol to Cornwall and the Isles ...
Tidal energy turbine gets all-clear
A tidal energy turbine in Co Down has been given the environmental all-clear, the developers have said.
