Wednesday, 01 June 2011

Wind energy will benefit from two completely separate initiatives that the U.K. government has agreed to help fund: an innovation center for offshore energy and a "green" bank.  The government has announced a decision to invest in an offshore renewable energy technology and innovation center to help British businesses commercialize wind, wave and tidal power. “The UK has world-leading expertise in offshore engineering and understanding of our seabed and marine environment,” the government’s Technology Strategy Board said. “This has...
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Tritech launched its Gemini SeaTec Mammal Detection System at the All-Energy show in Aberdeen, UK.  Gemini SeaTec is a mammal detection system which provides a valuable tool in the detection of marine life around subsea turbines.  Tritech’s subsea sonars have been deployed on marine current structures since 2008 when the company made its first step into the offshore renewables sector. The Gemini SeaTec system uses Tritech’s industry standard Gemini 720id multibeam sonar and its image detection software. This innovative software subsequently provides...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011

The Western Isles could capitalize on Scotland’s green energy boom following the news that wave energy company Aquamarine Power has secured seabed leases to capture up to 40MW of wave energy off the west coast of Lewis. Following a series of meetings and consultation with the local community, stakeholders and officials, the Edinburgh firm has obtained leases from seabed owner the Crown Estate. This will enable them to start environmental and feasibility studies and continue working with the local community and other key groups on the potential to install the...
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011

An application from Marine Current Turbines, the UK tidal energy developer, to secure money from the European Union's New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change. Marine Current Turbines' application for its proposed tidal farm in Scotland's Kyle Rhea will now go forward for consideration by the European Investment Bank. The EU's NER scheme is a fund worth around EUR4.5 billion to support carbon capture and storage and innovative renewable projects, such as the Kyle Rhea tidal scheme, across the European Union....
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Thursday, 12 May 2011

Marine Current Turbines, the UK tidal energy technology company, has won EnergyOcean International’s 2011 Technology Pioneer Award for successfully demonstrating and running their commercial-scale SeaGen tidal technology. The award will be received by Martin Wright, Chief Executive of Marine Current Turbines (MCT), at the EnergyOcean International 2011 Conference in Portland, Maine, USA next month (June 15th). The 1.2MW SeaGen, located in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, is the only tidal current turbine anywhere in the world to feed power regularly...
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