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NZ Wave Power Device Heading To Hawaii After Oregon Test
WET-NZ, the wave energy converter that became the first such device to plug in to a new test buoy off the Oregon coast in late August, will soon move on to Hawaii for a full year of testing after...
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Best Bet For U.K. Wave Power: Way Offshore
To get the most bang for their buck, U.K. wave energy developers need to look well offshore, according to a new study that aims to pinpoint the nation’s most economically attractive spots for...
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Wave Power Gets A Test On The Other Coast
The big news in wave energy has been coming out of Oregon this year, with the launch of a federally backed test site and system, and the licensing of a grid-connected commercial project, now scheduled...
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Wave Power Concept Pitches Jersey Beach Town
The seemingly endless variety of wave power wannabes includes designs that work by using the motion of the ocean to send pressurized water ashore, where generators can turn that force into electricity....
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Wave Hub Ready To Take On Its First Energy Device
The first wave energy device for Wave Hub, the big grid-connected test site being developed off the north coast of Cornwall in South West England, has been cleared for takeoff. The U.K.’s Marine...
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Big US Wave Energy Test Center Going To Newport, Oregon
The U.S. intends to get serious about wave energy development in Newport, Oregon. The seaside town of 10,000, an hour’s drive over the Coast Range from Corvallis (home to wave energy leader Oregon...
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Oregon Sets Wave Energy Development Course
Wave energy backers in Oregon – who hope to see the state become the center for the technology’s development in the United States – were celebrating on Friday, a day after the state’s Land Conservation...
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Remote Alaska Town Looks To Wave Energy
One vision for wave energy is to use a vast array of deep-water devices to feed large amounts of energy onto big grids; Carbon Trust believes such a scheme 100 kilometers offshore on the edge of the...
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Bombora Wave Device Gets Ecomagination Nod
There are wave energy converters made for big waves out at sea – like the devices tested and planned for deployment a few miles off the rambunctious Oregon coast. Then there’s Bombora Wave Power. The...
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OPT Oregon Wave Energy Project Delayed Again
Here’s our new nickname for Ocean Power Technologies’ PowerBuoy: Godot. As in, Waiting for Godot. The first PowerBuoy — prelude to a federally licensed, 10-buoy, grid-connected power plant — was...
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Will We Ever Really Make Much Electricity From the Ocean?
Waves may not be that predictable, even though technology and forecasting has improved (from World War II, when wave forecasting began in earnest, thanks to the requirements of the D-Day landing, up...
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Irish Eyes Smile On Wave And Wind Combo
The theory seems to be, if you’re going to build a platform for an offshore wind turbine, why not integrate a wave energy device into it? Or maybe it’s, if you’re going to build a wave energy device,...
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Wave Energy Hope Lures Belgium Into The Water
A Belgium-based consortium has put a new wave power converter in the water, yet another entry in this crazy, inchoate branch of renewable energy. The device from FlanSea – Flanders Energy from the Sea...
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Doing Wave Energy With No Moving Parts
A novel method for generating power from ocean waves – one that uses no moving parts – will be tested off the coast of New Hampshire this summer after trials this winter in Lake Washington, in the...
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Scotland: We’ll Rule The Waves
The Scottish government, pushing again to maintain Scotland‘s leadership in wave power, has approved the building of what could well become the world’s first significant array and announced that the...
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OPT Oregon Wave Project Looking More In Doubt
Last fall, the imminent deployment of a fully approved wave energy buoy off Oregon had a lot of people excited. Even the New York Times busted out a long story as Oregon held its fingers crossed that...
View ArticleSee A Wave Energy Device Battered By The Sea
Wave energy can sometimes appear to be frustratingly slow in making its way from concept to reality, but a new video from the developer Aquamarine Power is a good reminder of one reason why: These...
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Wave, Tidal Energy Get Bipartisan Love
You don’t have to go far to find at least one argument for the proposal by U.S. senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to streamline the wave and tidal energy approval process. Ocean...
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Wave Power Deployed To Patrol Coastal Waters
Wave devices have been slow to emerge as grid-connected energy sources, but there might be a future for the gizmos in the spy business. Or, at least, offshore patrol. Ocean Power Technologies, the New...
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New Wave Of US Support For Ocean Energy
Sixteen million dollars is a pittance in the larger energy scheme, but for wave and new tidal technologies in their infancy, every little bit of help is surely appreciated. Seventeen projects will get...
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