Marine Energy Technology

Wave Energy Still Looking for a Game-Changing ‘First’

By Pete Danko

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Doesn’t anyone remember LIMPET? Agucadoura? Despite what you might have read, the Carnegie Wave Energy project at Garden Island, off Perth, Australia, is not the world’s first grid-connected wave power station, nor the first grid-connected wave power array. The 500-kilowatt-rated LIMPET – that’s Land Installed Marine Power Energy Transmitter – commissioned in spring 2001 on… Keep reading →

 /  Published March 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM

Reflections From Breakthrough Marine Energy Trials

By Anders Jansson

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The renewable energy industry was excited late last year when marine energy technology company Minesto announced that it had successfully managed to produce electricity from low velocity currents off Northern Ireland, the first in the marine energy era. The marine power plant Deep Green has now been producing electricity for more than a year, and… Keep reading →

 /  Published January 19, 2015 at 10:00 AM