Marine Current Turbines Ltd has secured approval for a lease from The Crown Estate to deploy its award-winning SeaGen tidal current technology off Brough Ness, on the southern most tip of the Orkney Islands (South Ronaldsay) and north east of John O’Groats. The company plans to have its first phase of SeaGen tidal turbines deployed [...]
Companies, Tidal Energy | admin | March 17, 2010 | 
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16 Mar 2010
A joint venture partnership between Aquamarine Power and SSE Renewables has today [Tuesday 16 March] been granted exclusive development rights to an area of the seabed off the coast of Orkney as part of the world’s first commercial leasing programme for wave and tidal energy generation projects.
The partnership has been granted an [...]
Companies | admin | March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)
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Calpak has more than 30 years of experience in the conversion of sunlight into thermal energy and the provision of innovative solar thermal equipment at an unparalleled price-quality ratio.
Calpak was established in 1976 by BP (British Petroleum) and ever since has remained in the lead of research, development and production of solar thermal products [...]
ST Collectors Manufacturers | admin | February 25, 2010 | Comments (0)
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The EU will meet its 2020 20% renewable energy target – slightly exceeding it – according to an analysis by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) of all 27 Member States’ national forecast documents.
The EWEA analysis shows that EU member states are on course to achieve over 20% renewable [...]
Energy In Europe | admin | February 23, 2010 | Comments (0)
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Sunbolts is the brand of BizLink’s solar energy connectivity solutions, started as part of BizLink’s long term corporate goal to be a part of the global movement for new clean energy. Sunbolts main activity is located in BizLink’s headquarter in Fremont California from where the development of its products are controlled. Being a part [...]
SeaGen, the world-leading prototype commercial tidal energy turbine designed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has exceeded 1000 hours of operation in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. It is the first and only tidal current or wave energy system in the world to have achieved this milestone.
The 1.2MW tidal [...]
The MARINA project brings together companies, technology centers and universities from twelve EU countries.
The project comes under the 7th Framework Program for R&D+i of the European Union with a European Commission contribution of €8.7 million, supplemented by own resources from all participants.
The objective is to develop deepwater structures that can exploit the energy from wind, [...]
Companies | admin | February 10, 2010 | Comments (0)
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Marine Current Turbines has secured funding of £2.7million from the Carbon Trust’s Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF) to support the enhancement of SeaGen, the world’s largest and so far only megawatt scale grid-connected tidal current energy system which has been supplying electricity to customers in Northern Ireland since December 2008. [...]
Contract milestone for Scotland’s largest biomass power plant
RWE npower renewables has announced its key contractors for the £200 million, state of the art, biomass combined heat and power plant at Markinch in Fife. Metso (Finland) and Aker Solutions (Norway) have been appointed as main contractors to take forward the project. Metso, a global supplier of [...]
www.energizersolar.com showcases state-of-the-art innovative solar solutions
January 07, 2010 – ICP Solar Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ICPR.OB, FRANKFURT: K1U.F), a developer and marketer of innovative, proprietary solar panels, solar chargers, energy meters and other solar powered devices, today announced the launch of www.energizersolar.com, the online retail store for purchasing selected Energizer® solar powered charging solutions and accessories [...]
Companies | admin | January 8, 2010 | Comments (0)
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