BBC News, February 25, 2009 A BMW saloon was converted with equipment to capture energy normally wasted when a driver brakes. The team from Midlothian-based Artemis Intelligent Power said the equipment was less expensive than the batteries used in existing hybrid vehicles. Carbon emissions from the prototype were also down by 30% in combined city [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Artemis Using Digital Displacement to Power New Hybrid Car
Posted in Britain, Hybrid Vehicles, News, UK, United Kingdom, tagged Artemis Intelligent Power, Britain, Digital Displacement, Dr. Wim Rampen, Hybrid, Hybrid Vehicles, Renewable Energy, Stored Energy, UK, United Kingdom on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wellinghoff Publishes Opinion on FERC Role in Ocean Energy
Posted in DOE, DOI, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, Offshore Energy Plan, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Socio-Economic Issues, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged DOE, DOE Review Team Leads, DOI, DOI Review Team Leads, Electricity Generation, Energy Policy Act of 2005, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, FERC, Jon Wellinghoff, Marine Energy, MendoCoastCurrent, MMS, Obama, Ocean Energy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Socio-Economic Issues, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, February 14, 2009 Acting Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Jon Wellinghoff recently published Facilitating Hydrokinetic Energy Development Through Regulatory Innovation. Consider it required reading as a backgrounder on US wave energy policy development, FERC’s position on the MMS in renewables and FERC’s perceived role as a government agency in renewable energy, specifically marine energy, development. Missing [...]
UK Ocean Energy Quickly Churning Forward
Posted in Economic Issues, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, England, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy, Research, Scotland, Sea Turbine, Smart Grid, Tidal Energy, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Aquamarine, Archimedes, AWS, Britain, Cornwall, Economic Issues, Electricity Generation, EMEC, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, Europe, Hammerfest UK, IMechE, Marine Energy, OpenHydro, OreCon, Orkney, Oyster, Pelamis Wave Power, Pentland Firth, Renewable Energy, Saltire Prize, Scotland, Scotrenewables, Scottish Power, SeaGen, Smart Grid, Tidal Stream, Tidal Turbines, UK, Undersea Grid, WATES, Wave Hub, Wavegen, William Banks on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PETER BROWN, EnergyCurrent.com, February 16, 2009 On a Monday morning in May last year, the Atlantic tide set a turbine in motion on the seabed off Orkney, and the energy captured was connected to the national grid. It was, said Jim Mather, Scotland’s Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, a “massive step forward”. The amount [...]
WhalePower Turbine Blades Improve Power by 20%
Posted in Biomimicry, Canada, Energy Research, News, Renewable Energy, Research, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Turbines, Windmills, tagged Biomimicry, Canada, Energy Research, Funding, Renewable Energy, Toronto, WhalePower, Wind Energy, Wind Energy Institute, Wind Farms, Wind Turbine Blades, Wind Turbines on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TYLER HAMILTON, CleanBreak.ca, February 17, 2009 Toronto-based WhalePower, maker of the tubercle-lined turbine blades inspired by humpback whale flippers, got the results back from its first independent study in the field. The blade design was tested on a 25-kilowatt Wenvor Technologies turbine at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada. The institude found that annualized energy [...]
Wellinghoff on Energy Stimulus Funds, Removing Renewable Energy Obstacles and FERC
Posted in Dept. of Energy, Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, Electricity Generation, Energy, Energy Research, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Environmental Issues, FERC, Funding, Green Recovery, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Marine Energy, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Renewable Energy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Research, Smart Grid, Socio-Economic Issues, Solar Energy, Tidal Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, tagged Demand Response, Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, Electricity Generation, Energy Infrastructure, Energy Resarch, Energy Siting, Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC Restructuring, FERC Review Team, Funding, Geothermal Energy, Jon Wellinghoff, MendoCoastCurrent, Obama, Offshore Energy Plan, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Solar Energy, U.S., U.S. Congress, US Energy Bills, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wind Energy on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent from Platts Energy Podium, February 12, 2009 The recently approved Economic Stimulus Plan includes expanding the US electric transmission grid and this may be the just the start of what will be a costly effort to improve reliability and deliver renewable energy to consumers from remote locations, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Acting Chairman [...]
Pelamis P2 Powers On in Orkney
Posted in Electricity Generation, Energy Research, England, EU-15, Funding, Green Recovery, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Ocean Energy, Portugal, Renewable Energy, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Aguçadoura, Cornwall, E.On, Electricity Generation, EMEC, Enersis, England, Europe, Funding, Ocean Prospect, Orcadian Wave Farm, Orkney, Pelamis, Pelamis Wave Power, Portugal, Renewable Energy, Scotland, ScottishPower, UK, United Kingdom, Wave, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm, Wave Hub on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
MaritimeJournal.com, February 12, 2009 Edinburgh-based Pelamis Wave Power has won an order from UK renewable energy generator E.On for the next generation Pelamis Wave Energy Converter, known as the P2. The P2 will be built at the Pelamis Leith Docks facility and trialed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. This is the first [...]
Pentland Firth, the Saudi Arabia of Tidal Power, Growing Full Tilt
Posted in Electricity Generation, Environmental Issues, Europe, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, Research, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Concerns, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ocean Energy, Pentland Firth, Renewable Energy, Saltire Prize, Scotland, Scotland Crown Estate, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JENNY HAWORTH, Scotman.com, February 12, 2009 MORE than three dozen energy companies from across the world are hoping to install wave energy devices in a stretch of sea off the north of Scotland. The renewable energy firms all have their sights on the Pentland Firth, which is considered one of the best locations in the [...]
Carnegie Corp Now Licensed to Explore Wave Energy Off Australia
Posted in Australia, Energy Research, Geothermal Energy, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, South Australia, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, tagged Australia, Carnegie Corp. Carnegie, CETO, Geothermal Energy, Port MacDonnell, Premier Mike Rann, Renewable Energy, South Australia, Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm, Wind Energy, Wind Farm on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL, The Advertiser, February 11, 2009 Wave energy company Carnegie Corporation has been licensed by the Australian state government to explore the seabed off the southeast coast. It is the first license issued in South Australia for a company to search for suitable sites for wave-harnessing technology. Carnegie Corporation, which has demonstration wave energy projects [...]
President Obama Stalls Bush Drilling Plans
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, EPA, Hydrokinetic Energy, Improper Practices, Issue, Marine Energy, MMS, News, Northern California, Obama, Ocean Energy, OCS, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Oil Drilling, Offshore Oil Drilling Ban, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Southern California, Sustainable, U.S., US Energy Policy, tagged BLM, California, Eastern Seaboard, Environmental Issues, EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gulf of Mexico, Kristina Johnson, Mercury Emissions, Minerals Management Service, MMS, Obama, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Oil and Gas, Offshore Oil Drilling, Offshore Oil Drilling Ban, President Obama, Public Comment, Renewable Energy, Secretary Ken Salazar, US Geological Survey on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
DANIEL B. WOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, February 11, 2009 Less than a month into his administration, President Obama is making good on campaign promises to move toward a comprehensive approach to US energy and to broaden environmental protections. The administration has moved over the past few weeks to undo many of Bush’s last-minute drilling [...]
Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland Backing Wave Energy
Posted in Energy Research, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Marine Energy, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, Scotland, Sea Turbine, Tidal Energy, UK, United Kingdom, Viewscape Issues, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, tagged Aberdeen, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ocean Energy Ltd., Renewable Energy, Scotland, Tarves, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DAVID EWENCHIEF, The Evening Express, February 11, 2009 The Aberdeenshire Council has pointed to tides – rather than wind turbines – as the best green solution to the energy crisis. The council took part in a consultation on the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Bill, which is going through Parliament, suggesting tide and current generation would [...]
New Wave Treader Attaches to Offshore Wind Turbines
Posted in Electricity Generation, Europe, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, OCS, Patents, Renewable Energy, Scotland, Sea Turbine, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, tagged Ocean Treader, Renewable Energy, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Treader, Wind Energy, Wind Turbine on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MATTHEW MCDERMOTT, Treehuger.com, February 10, 2009 Based off the Aberdeen, Scotland-based company’s Ocean Treader, the Wave Treader is designed to mount onto the tower of an offshore wind turbine. The Wave Treader concept utilizes the arms and sponsons from Ocean Treader and instead of reacting against a floating spar buoy, will react through an interface [...]
Obama Enlists Silicon Valley Doerr and Phillips
Posted in Bay Area, Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Obama, President Obama, Silicon Valley, U.S., tagged Charles Phillips, Economic Issues, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Economic Stimulus Plan, John Doerr, KPCB, Martin Feldstein, MendoCoastCurrent, Obama, Paul Volcker, President Obama, Robert Wolf, Silicon Valley, U.S. on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, February 11, 2009 President Obama chose two Silicon Valley notables as members of his new Economic Recovery Advisory Board. The 15-member board shall advise Obama on decisions about the US economy and announced to spur Congress into passing legislation for his economic stimulus plan. President Obama said he created a panel of outside advisers [...]
E.On Testing Pelamis Wave Energy Device Off Scotland
Posted in Energy Research, Europe, Marine Energy, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged E.On, Europe, European Marine Energy Centre, MendoCoastCurrent, Orkney, Pelamis, Renewable Energy, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, February 10, 2009 E.On is moving forward to install and test a single wave device to be fully operational in 2010. Based around a single 750kW Pelamis P2 device that is currently being built in Edinburgh, it will be installed and tested at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. The first year [...]
Desalination Gets Push from Drought in San Diego
Posted in California, Desalination, Environmental Issues, EPA, Issue, News, Southern California, U.S., tagged A.G. Kawamura, California, Carlsbad, Desalination, Donald Koch, Environmental Issues, EPA, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Adams, Mike Chrisman, Poseidon Resources, San Diego, Southern California, U.S. on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ROB DAVIS, VoiceOfSanDiego.org, February 8, 2009 With California’s water supplies crimped and cuts on the way, the idea of a new water source in San Diego is making politicians salivate. The seawater desalination plant proposed by Poseidon Resources Corp. is advertised as being able to tap into the Pacific Ocean, a drought-proof supply. Now the [...]
Finavera Sinks their own Wave Energy Projects
Posted in BC, British Columbia, California, Canada, CPUS, Dept. of the Interior, Economic Issues, Energy Research, Eureka, FERC, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Issue, Marine Energy, Mendocino Coast Current, MMS, News, Northern California, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged British Columbia, California, Canada, CPUC, DOI, FERC, FERC Pilot Permit License, Finavera, Funding, Humboldt, Makah, MMS, Northern California, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Pilot License, Wave Farm, Wind Energy on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Publisher’s Note: Feb 09, 2009 – Not only has Finavera surrendered their Makah Bay license noted below, they also announced surrendering the Humboldt County, California Preliminary Permit to explore wave energy: “Finavera Renewables has filed applications to surrender its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for the Makah Bay Wave Energy Pilot Project in Washington and [...]
Renewable Energy Now Looking for Economic CPR
Posted in Congress, Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, Funding, Green Jobs, Green Recovery, Issue, News, Obama, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Small Solar, Solar Energy, Solar PV, U.S., Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Turbines, tagged Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, Funding, Green Recovery, NextEra, Obama, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Tax Credis, Small Solar, Solar Energy, Solar Panels, T. Boone Pickens, U.S., U.S. Congress, Wind Energy, Wind Farms, Wind Turbines on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
KATE GALBRAITH, The New York Times, February 4, 2009 Wind and solar energy have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is [...]
CETO Maker Sees Buoyant Future in Wave Energy
Posted in Australia, Biomimicry, Electricity Generation, England, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Thermal, Renewable Energy, Sea Turbine, Tidal Energy, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Austraila, Biomimicry, Biopower Systems, bioWAVE, Britain, Carnegie Corporation, CETO, CETO Wave Energy, Electricity Generation, Renewable Energy, Sea Turbine, Tidal Power, UK, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Device, Wave Farm on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DAVID FOGARTY, Reuters Climate Change Correspondent, February 5, 2009 For millennia, Australia’s rugged southern coast has been carved by the relentless action of waves crashing ashore. The same wave energy could soon be harnessed to power towns and cities and trim Australia’s carbon emissions. “Waves are already concentrated solar energy,” says Michael Ottaviano, who leads [...]
OPT Oregon Wave Energy May Roll In Soon
Posted in Economic Issues, Economic Stimulus Plan, FERC, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, Oregon, President Obama, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Economic Stimulus Plan, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, Funding, Lockheed Martin, Obama, OPT, PowerBuoy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SUSAN CHAMBERS, The World, February 4, 2009 Coos Bay, Oregon — The jobs are coming, so Ocean Power Technologies insists. OPT spokesman Len Bergstein said Monday the company wants to get stimulus funds from the federal government. “We have a strong interest in presenting a project that would be jobs-ready right now,” Bergstein said. OPT [...]
Surprising Oregon Wave Energy FERC Permit Issued
Posted in Dept. of the Interior, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Improper Practices, Legal Issues, Marine Energy, MMS, News, Ocean Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Comm. Terry Thompson, Dept. of the Interior, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, FERC Review Team, FINE, Fishermen, Gardiner, Ground Zero, Lincoln County, MMS, MOU, Newport, North Spit, OPT, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Rob Bovett, Southern Oregon, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Farm on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SUSAN CHAMBERS, The World, February 3, 2009 Coos Bay — The announcement came as a surprise to everyone. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Thursday order issuing a preliminary permit for a 200- to 400-buoy wave energy project off of Newport shocked Ocean Power Technologies leaders as well as the public. “It’s a project, a site [...]
New York Testing Small Wind on Albany Skyscraper
Posted in Electricity Generation, New York, News, Renewable Energy, Small Wind, U.S., Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, tagged Albany, Corning Tower, Electricity Generation, Gov. David Paterson, New York, NYSERDA, Renewable Energy, Small Wind, Small Wind Turbine, U.S., Wind Energy, Wind Turbines on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RICHARD RICHTMYER, AP via Forbes, February 2, 2009 New York state officials are using a small wind turbine atop Albany’s tallest building to test a big renewable energy idea. The turbine stands 17 feet above the roof of the 41-story Corning Tower. Its 7-foot diameter blades can produce up to 1.5 kilowatts of electricity when spinning [...]
IRENA, Int’l Renewable Energy Agency Launches
Posted in Denmark, Europe, Germany, News, Renewable Energy, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, tagged Denmark, Germany, International Energy Agency, IRENA, Renewable Energy, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UAE on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, January 29, 2009 On January 28, 2009, the launch of a long-planned international agency to promote the interests of renewable energy took place in Bonn, Germany. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will advise industrialized and developing nations on ways of reducing their dependency on oil, coal and gas. The new agency aims to [...]
Push for Clean Energy Spurs Tidal Power Globally
Posted in Electricity Generation, England, EU-15, Europe, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Marine Energy, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sea Turbine, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, U.S., UK, Wave Energy, tagged Carbon Trust, England, EU, EU-15, Europe, European Marine Energy Centre, International Energy Agency, Ireland, Marine Current Turbines, Marine Energy, MCT, Ocean Energy, OpenHydro, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Scotland, SeaGen, Strangford Lough, Tidal Energy, U.S., UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bloomberg via The Economic Times, February 2, 2009 LONDON: Three decades ago, engineer Peter Fraenkel created an underwater turbine to use river power to pump water in Sudan, where he worked for a charity. Civil war and a lack of funding stymied his plans. Now, his modified design generates electricity from tides off Northern Ireland. [...]
Plan, Baby, Plan
Posted in Issue, News, Research, Mendocino Coast Current, Environmental Issues, US Energy Policy, U.S., Renewable Energy, Peak Oil, Obama, President Bush, Legal Issues, Offshore Oil Drilling Ban, Dept. of the Interior, Offshore Oil Drilling, President Obama, Economic Stimulus Plan, Energy Research, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Renewable Energy, tagged U.S., MMS, Minerals Management Service, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, President Bush, US Energy Policy, Rulemaking, MMS Leases, Dept. of the Interior, DOI Review Team Leads, DOI, Energy Policy Act of 2005, MMS Comment Period, President Obama, Economic Stimulus Plan, Secretary Ken Salazar, Energy Research, Offshore Energy Plan, US Geological Survey, Offshore Renewable Energy on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Washington Post Editorial, February 12, 2009 Interior Secretary Salazar Keeps his Options Open on Offshore Drilling Here’s the ultimate midnight regulation: On the very last day of the Bush administration, the Interior Department proposed a new five-year plan for oil and gas leasing on the outer continental shelf. All hearings and other meetings on the [...]
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