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 the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Finavera’
Finavera Sinks their own Wave Energy Projects
Posted in BC, British Columbia, CPUS, California, Canada, Dept. of the Interior, Economic Issues, Energy Research, Eureka, FERC, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Issue, MMS, Marine Energy, Mendocino Coast Current, 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 »
Capturing Ocean Energy
Posted in Australia, Economic Issues, England, Environmental Issues, Europe, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, New York, News, Ocean Energy, Portugal, Renewable Energy, Research, Scotland, Sea Turbine, Tidal Stream, U.S., UK, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Farm, Wind Energy, tagged Australia, AWS, Cornwall, East River Project, Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, EPRI, Europe, FERC, Finavera, New York, OPT, Pelamis, Portugal, Scotland, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, U.S., UK, Underwater Windmills, United Kingdom, Verdant, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm, Wave Hub, Wind Energy on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guardian.co.uk, December 3, 2008
Way back in Napoleonic Paris, a Monsieur Girard had a novel idea about energy: power from the sea. In 1799, Girard obtained a patent for a machine he and his son had designed to mechanically capture the energy in ocean waves. Wave power could be used, they figured, to run pumps and [...]
Concerns Emerge About Environmental Effects of Wave Energy
Posted in California, Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Oregon, Tidal Stream, U.S., US Energy Policy, Viewscape Issues, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Applied Physics Lab, California, EMF, Environmental Issues, FERC, Finavera, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Makah, Oregon, Oregon State University, OSU, PG&E, Puget Sound, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, U.S., University of Washington, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MICHELLE MA, Seattle Times, November 17, 2008
What started out as a mad dash to extract energy from the ocean’s waves and tides has slowed to a marathoner’s pace — complete with a few water breaks and sprained ankles along the way.
In the past three years, more than 100 preliminary permits have been issued nationally for [...]
Finavera Plans US $1M Private Placement
Posted in CPUC, California, Economic Issues, Funding, Humboldt, News, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged BC, California, CPUC, Economic Issues, Finavera, Funding, Humboldt, PG&E, Wave Energy, Wind Energy on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, November 10, 2008
Finavera Renewables Inc. has announced that it plans to raise US $1,002,000 through a non-brokered private placement of 20,040,000 units at a price of $0.05 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of a share purchase warrant, with each full warrant exercisable at $0.10 for 12 months from [...]
California Rejects PG&E Contract for Wave Energy
Posted in California, Economic Issues, Eureka, Fort Bragg, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, U.S., Wave Energy, tagged California, CPUC, Economic Issues, Eureka, Finavera, Fort Bragg, Funding, Humboldt, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Mendocino Wave Energy, Northern California, PG&E, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Farm on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
MATT NAUMAN, San Jose Mercury News, October 27, 2008
The California Public Utilities Commission rejected a Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy, saying the utility was going to pay too much for a technology that’s still largely experimental.
Last December, PG&E said it would be the first utility in the nation to get energy from [...]
Power From the Restless Sea Stirs the Imagination
Posted in California, Dept. of Energy, Environmental Issues, Fort Bragg, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, New York, News, Ocean Thermal, Oregon, Portugal, Sea Turbine, Tidal Stream, U.S., US Energy Policy, United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged California, DOE, East River Project, Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, Finavera, Fishermen, Fort Bragg, Funding, General Electric, Humboldt, Mendocino, Mendocino Wave Energy, Ocean Thermal, OPT, Oregon, Pelamis, PG&E, Portugal, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, U.S., Verdant, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
KATE GALBRAITH, The New York Times, September 23, 2008
For years, technological visionaries have painted a seductive vision of using ocean tides and waves to produce power. They foresee large installations off the coast and in tidal estuaries that could provide as much as 10% of the nation’s electricity.
But the technical difficulties of making such systems [...]
Rescued Sunken Wave Energy Buoy Calls for Better Infrastructure
Posted in Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Research, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Environmental Issues, Finavera, FINE, Fishermen, Oregon, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TERRY DILLMAN, Newport News-Times, July 25, 2008
It sank to the bottom in 150 feet of water just one day before its planned retrieval. After nine months of waiting for the right weather and ocean conditions, divers and salvage vessels are currently on site to assist in the rebirth of a 75-foot, 40-ton wave energy buoy.
Developed [...]
US Wave Energy Having Temporary Setbacks
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, FERC, Fort Bragg, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, MMS, Mendocino, News, OCS, Oregon, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged California, FERC, Finavera, Makah, MMS, OCS, OPT, Oregon, PG&E, Scotland, U.S., Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Platts/McGraw-Hill, August 2008
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) is looking to generate power from Scottish waters as well. Nasdaq-listed OPT reported July 28 that it had signed a berth agreement with the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. OPT can, under the berth agreement, deploy and operate its unit as well as hook [...]
Finavera Renewables Updates at Mid-2008
Posted in BC, British Columbia, California, Canada, Environmental Issues, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Issue, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Oregon, Patents, Research, U.S., Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged British Columbia, California, Canada, Finavera, Funding, Humboldt, Ireland, Oregon, PG&E, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Farms on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, July 27, 2008
Finavera Renewables CEO Jason Bak provides this overview of 2008 activities to date and an outlook for the remainder of the year.
“The first half of 2008 has been an exciting period for Finavera Renewables,” commented CEO Jason Bak. “Our strategy [in] wind projects is to develop an approximate one gigawatt pipeline with [...]
The Coming Wave
Posted in California, Funding, Germany, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, Portugal, Scotland, U.S., United Kingdom, Wave Energy, tagged Aquamarine Power, AWS, Climate Change, Cornwall, Finavera, Funding, Germany, Iberdrola, OPT, Pelamis, PG&E, Portugal, Scotland, Slater's Duck, UK, Voith Siemens Hydro, Wave Energy, Wave Hub, Wavegen on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Economist, June 5, 2008
You only have to look at waves pounding a beach, inexorably wearing cliffs into rubble and pounding stones into sand, to appreciate the power of the ocean. As soaring oil prices and concern over climate change give added urgency to the search for new, renewable sources of energy, the sea is [...]
Harnessing Energy from the Oceans
Posted in Australia, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Issue, News, Nova Scotia, Portugal, Scotland, Tidal Stream, U.S., United Kingdom, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, tagged Australia, Clean Current PowerSystems, Cornwall, Environmental Issues, Finavera, Lunar Energy, Marine Current Turbines, Marine Energy, Ocean Current Turbine, Ocean Energy, Pelamis, PG&E, Portugal, Sea Turbine, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, Wales, Wave Energy on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GLOBE-NET NEWS, May 29, 2008
Forever moving – our restless oceans have enough energy to power the world. As long as the Earth turns and the moon keeps its appointed cycle, the oceans will absorb and dissipate vast amounts of kinetic energy – a renewable energy resource of enormous potential. But harnessing this resource has proven [...]
Ecology Challenges FERC for Bypassing Environmental Reviews of Energy Projects
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged DOE, Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC Conditioned License, FERC Licensing, Finavera, Washington, Wave Energy on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Press Release from the Washington State Dept. of Ecology, March 15, 2008
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) today filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to protect the state’s role in federal licensing procedures for energy projects. The petition asks the court to clarify federal law [...]
Riding the Power of Undersea Waves
Posted in Finland, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Portugal, Wave Energy, tagged Finavera, Finland, Limpet, Nordic Green Conference, Pelamis, Wave Energy, Wavebob, WaveRoller on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MICHAEL KANELLOS, CNet News, April 24, 2008
MENLO PARK, Calif.–Back and forth, back and forth. That’s the idea behind WaveRoller.
The company, based in Espoo, Finland, says it has devised a way to generate electricity from waves without buoys or other floating devices, the mainstay of other wave power companies.
Instead, the company wants to plant oscillating fiberglass/steel [...]
Renewable Energy at Sea: Harnessing Wave Energy
Posted in Electricity Generation, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Ocean Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy, Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, tagged Aegir Dynamo, AWS, Electricity Generation, Finavera, Marine Energy, Ocean Energy, OCS Renewable Energy, OpenHydro, OWC, Pelamis, Renewable Energy, Wave Dragon, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
IMC Brokers, October 23, 2007
Generating Renewable Energy from Ocean Waves
Wave power refers to the energy of ocean surface waves and the capture of that energy to do useful work – including electricity generation, desalination, and the pumping of water (into reservoirs). Wave power is a form of renewable energy. Though often co-mingled, wave power is [...]
It Came From the Sea–Renewable Energy, That Is
Posted in California, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Mendocino, New York, News, Oregon, Tidal Stream, United Kingdom, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged Aguçadoura, E.On, East River Project, FERC, Finavera, Humboldt, Makah, Mendocino, New York, Pelamis, Pelamis Wave Power, PG&E, Tidal Turbines, Verdant, Wave Energy on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LARRY GREENEMEIER, Scientific American, March 10, 2008
Thirty feet (nine meters) below Manhattan’s East River, next to Roosevelt Island, six turbines—each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter, churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute—stand at attention on the riverbed. The turbines—which belong to New York City-based Verdant Power, Inc., —are built on a [...]
Finavera Granted FERC Prelim Permit for Humboldt Wave Energy
Posted in California, News, Wave Energy, tagged California, FERC, FERC License, Finavera, Humboldt, PG&E, Wave Energy on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finavera Renewables, Vancouver, Canada, February 15, 2008
Finavera Renewables is pleased to announce it has been issued a Preliminary Permit for its proposed 100MW Humboldt County, California wave energy project. The permit approval was granted by the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”).
The preliminary permit is valid for a period of three years, and allows [...]
Finavera Announces $2M Private Placement
Posted in Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Wave Energy, tagged Finavera, Funding, Wave Energy on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finavera Renewables, February 4, 2008
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Finavera Renewables Inc is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of 10,000,000 units at a price of $0.20 per unit for gross proceeds of $2,000,000. The units consist of one common share and one-half of a share purchase warrant, with each full warrant exercisable at $0.25 [...]
Troubled Seas: Washington DOE Challenges FERC License to Makah Wave Energy
Posted in FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged DOE, FERC, FERC Conditioned License, FERC License, Finavera, Makah, Washington on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ALYSSA MOIR, Marten Law Group, January 30, 2008
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) took the unusual step this month of challenging a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue a license for a wave energy project on the grounds that FERC had approved the project prior to having received certification from the [...]
FERC Approves Wave Energy Project at Makah
Posted in FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Wave Energy, tagged FERC, FERC Conditioned License, FERC License, Finavera, Makah, Washington, Wave Energy on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
December 2007: Compelling documents — Approved FERC Order and official announcements related to Makah Bay wave energy project being undertaken by Finavera. -LKBlog
Thanks for Tom Schlosser at Morisett Schlosser for these docs: Here is the FERC announcement and the statements of commissioners Spitzer and Kelliher.
PG&E to Invest in Wave Energy
Posted in California, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, Wave Energy, tagged FERC, Finavera, Humboldt, PG&E, Wave Energy on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MATT NAUMAN, Mercury News, December 18, 2007
UTILITY WILL BUY 2 MEGAWATTS FROM FACILITY BY 2012
PG&E will become the first U.S. utility to agree to buy energy from the ocean when it announces a deal today to get 2 megawatts of power by 2012 from the cold, choppy waters off the Northern California coast.
The deal, with [...]
Wave Energy Goes Commercial
Posted in California, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged California, Finavera, Humboldt, Oregon, PG&E, Wave Energy on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MARIANNE LAVELLE, U.S. News & World Report, December 18, 2007
The idea of harnessing energy from ocean waves to produce electricity for U.S. homes and businesses takes a giant leap forward today as the nation’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, announces the first commercial agreement to purchase power generated with this cutting-edge technology.
PG&E signed the [...]
Finavera Granted a License for Makah Bay Project
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged Environmental Issues, FERC, Finavera, Makah, Olympia, Washington, Wave Energy on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
RALPH THOMAS, Seattle Times Olympia Bureau, December 21, 2007
OLYMPIA — The waters off Makah Bay near the tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula could become home to the world’s first commercial wave-energy project.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday issued its first license for a so-called hydrokinetic energy project to British Columbia-based Finavera Renewables, a [...]
First Wave Energy Project Conditionally Approved
Posted in California, News, Wave Energy, tagged FERC, Finavera, Makah, Washington on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On December 21, the Finavera Renewables Ocean Energy, Ltd conditionally secured a FERC license for its hydrokinetic power project located 1.9 nautical miles offshore Washington State. The 5-year license to the Makah Bay Offshore Wave Pilot Project is designed “to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of wave energy conversion power plants near coastal communities.” [...]
Wave Energy Buoy Sinks Day Before Its Removal
Posted in Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, Finavera, Fishermen, Wave Energy on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Finavera had been collecting data before the buoy took on water and bilge pump fails
LORI TOBIAS, The Oregonia, November 1, 2007
NEWPORT — The first wave energy test buoy deployed off the Oregon coast has sunk.
Engineers with the Canadian energy developer Finavera Renewables learned the $2 million buoy plunged to the ocean floor only a [...]
A Sea of Potential in Alaska
Posted in Alaska, Hydrokinetic Energy, Sea Turbine, Tidal Stream, Wave Energy, tagged Alaska, EMEC, Environmental Issues, FERC, Finavera, OPT, OREC, Pelamis, Tidal Turbines, Verdant, Wave Energy on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
BRIAN VANITY, insurgent49, September 1, 2006
As any mariner knows, the oceans are packed full of energy. The energy contained in the seas can destroy ships but, if harnessed correctly, can also be used to generate electricity.
There are several types of energy, which can be extracted from the Alaska’s ocean waters, the two most promising being [...]
