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  • Wave Energy Company Goes Down

    23 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Aquamarine Power ceased trading on 20 November due to not receiving any offers from buyers. This was reported by BDO LLP business restructuring partners James Stephen and Graham Newton, who have been appointed Joint Administrators on 27 October. James Stephen said: “Despite a comprehensive marketing process, and after speaking to a number of interested parties, we regret to announce […]

  • Protean Hires Wave Energy Specialist

    26 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    William Toman has been engaged as President of the Protean Wave Energy, US subsidiary of Stonehenge Metals. Toman is an energy industry professional with more than 25 years of experience managing energy and environmental project development. He has been responsible for the development of over 2,000 MW of generating capacity for utilities and independent power producers both inside […]

  • IHCantabria explores seaports and wave energy synergy

    4 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    IHCantabria has discussed the progress of the SE@PORTS project whose main goal is to study the implementation of wave energy converters in seaports at the recently held steering committee meeting.

  • Australia: Wave Energy Project Wakes Community’s Interest

    7 August 2012
    Technology

    This week, Bio Power Systems held information meetings regarding its 250 kW wave energy project. The meetings took place at Port Fairy and Yambuk, with about 50 attendees. The ABC news site quotes Dr Timothy Finnegan, the company’s chief executive, as saying: “Just wanting to be well informed and we appreciate that and we’re providing […]

  • The INWAVE wave energy conversion system

    28 October 2020

    IWES (INGINE Wave Energy Systems ltd) was established in September 2016 in Scotland (at Forss energy park in Caithness). In the next presentation, IWES is talking about their INWAVE development which is suitable for shoreline and remote islands. This onshore wave energy conversion system will enable small islands and small coastal cities to become energy […]

  • Gallery: Wave Energy Prize showcase

    6 January 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The photos have been taken at the Wave Energy Prize innovation showcase where AquaHarmonics took home the grand prize.

  • VIDEO: AWECS wave energy converter

    1 March 2016
    Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Conversion Corporation of America (WECCA) is competing in the Wave Energy Prize challenge with its AWECS wave energy device comprised of three articulating barges. Advanced Wave Energy Conversion System’s (AWECS) fore and aft barges are propelled by continuous ocean waves, with the power take-off devices connected at leveraged hinge points to the center […]

  • Wave Energy Scotland funds studies

    11 February 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has awarded £250,000 to industry partners for three landscaping studies in wave energy materials, structural forces and technology transfer. Arup’s team will lead the delivery of the research into structural forces and stresses, and the Institute for Materials and Processes at the University of Edinburgh will, with three other partners, carry […]

  • VIDEO: REWEC3 wave energy converter

    23 April 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    REWEC3 wave energy converter is oscillating water columns (OWC) type of device that uses the oscillatory motion of mass of water induced by a wave in a chamber to compress air to drive the air turbine. Wavenergy.it, an Italian ocean energy developer, has developed REWEC3, a reinforced concrete caisson that can be built in dry […]

  • VIDEO: WaveRoller wave energy converter

    17 February 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    AW Energy’s WaveRoller is a device that creates electricity by moving and absorbing the energy from the ocean waves. The single WaveRoller unit, consisting of one panel, has the capacity of 500 kW up to 1000 kW depending on wave conditions at the deployment site. Device works when the back and forth movement of water […]

  • VIDEO: Lorin Wave Energy Converter

    26 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The system consists of barges that are linked to fixed beams, parallel to the coast, with steel bars and support bearings. Every barge independently makes movements vertically on the surface. The ropes, constantly fixed on the barges, transfer these movements to the intermediate shafts. There is an intermediate shaft for each barge and on the […]

  • Infographic: Methods to harness wave energy

    24 December 2014
    Environment, Technology

    Wave energy is an irregular and oscillating low-frequency energy source that can be converted to electricity and added to the electric utility grid. The energy in waves comes from the movement of the ocean and changing heights and speed of the swells. The energy of motion in waves is tremendous, and can be harnessed to […]

  • VIDEO: WERPO’s wave energy technology

    31 August 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    WERPO, an Israeli wave energy player, has designed a wave energy system that harnesses the energy of the waves to produce electricity while being only 10% submerged in the water. WERPO’s technology, initially developed under SDE Ltd, is based on the utilization of sea waves to yield hydraulic pressure that produces electricity, while exploiting the […]

  • Introducing SWWCB wave energy device

    20 August 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    Marine Energy Corporation (MEC), a Texas-based marine energy developer, has designed a point absorber barge whose mooring system turns onboard generators to produce electricity. Super Watt Wave Catcher Barge (SWWCB) is a buoyant barge that rides the water’s surface and uses its mooring lines to turn generators located inside the buoyant body to generate power. […]

  • Seafloor Carpet to Harness Wave Energy

    30 January 2014
    Technology

    Assistant professor Reza Alam, an expert in wave mechanics, proposes the seafloor “carpet” which will convert ocean waves into usable energy. “There is a vast amount of untapped energy in the oceans, and with increasing worldwide demand for power, the need to find cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels is critical,” said Alam. Marcus Lehmann, a […]

  • Wave Energy Goes Online in Spain

    22 September 2011

    The world’s first commercial wave energy plant went online this summer and is supplying electricity to a town in northern Spain. Despite its high investment costs, it could serve as a model for other coastal regions.  The small Spanish coastal town of Mutriku doesn’t look like it would be home to a high-tech power plant. […]

  • Wave Energy Converter SIMulator Released

    2 July 2014
    Research & Development, Technology

    WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open source wave energy converter simulation tool being developed as a joint effort between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind and Water Power Technologies Office. The wave energy converter developers and researchers have informed that […]

  • AMOG scouts for wave energy engineer

    3 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Australian engineering company AMOG has opened a vacancy for the position of renewable energy engineer that will be working on the development of the company’s wave energy converter project.

  • AXYS to Host Webinar on Wave Energy

    18 March 2014

    AXYS will hold their next webinar “Design & Development of an Offshore Wave Energy Converter Testing Platform” next week. Ocean testing facilities are essential to enable wave energy converter developers to demonstrate performance and survivability, and to optimize devices. AXYS will discuss the technical design and development of a NOMAD instrumentation buoy and 3-point mooring used […]

  • VIDEO: Laminaria wave energy converter

    26 March 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Laminaria wave energy converter is a device that uses tilting motion to convert the energy of the waves into electricity. The Laminaria WEC is constituted from vertical surface that interacts with the incoming horizontal wave energy. As a result of the horizontal movement in the water the Laminaria WEC is subjected to a tilting and […]

  • VIDEO: ISWEC wave energy converter

    13 February 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    Wave for Energy, a Turin-based wave energy developer, has designed and built ISWEC wave energy converter that uses a gyroscopic system which exploits wave’s slopes to produce energy. ISWEC device is designed as a sealed hull, that acts as home to all technological parts of the device. The system works when the hull oscillations caused […]

  • VIDEO: WEPTOS wave energy converter

    5 January 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    WEPTOS WEC has a simple and enduring triangular structure, connected through a flexible part in the bow. The structure is anchored by the beam positioning itself correctly in the waves’ direction. Through its floating angular construction, the wave energy converter is able to regulate the wave energy input and reduce the impact during rough weather conditions. […]

  • VIDEO: KymoGen wave energy device

    16 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    KymoGen is pushing forward with the development of their wave energy device, with the first unit scheduled for completion in July 2015. The water testing should follow immediately after the construction work is done. The production units are expected to be completed in September, and the installations are estimated to take place by August 2016, […]

  • VIDEO: Protean wave energy converter

    2 March 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    The Protean system comprises a point-absorber wave energy converter buoy which floats on the water surface and extracts the energy from waves. The device achieves this by the extension and retraction of a tether to its anchoring weight on the sea bed. The Protean WEC converts the energy of waves from all six degrees of wave […]

  • VIDEO: Oregon Dives into Wave Energy

    19 February 2013
    Technology

    In October 2012, Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET) released the results of a survey conducted by DHM Research, which showed strong support of ocean energy, with 78 percent of those surveyed in favor of its development. Nine out of ten of the survey participants cited wave energy being a new source of renewable energy as […]