Engineering firm JP Kenny, part of John Wood Group PLC, has been chosen by the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) to oversee the design, procurement and construction of the Wave Hub renewable energy project. Should it run to its proposed schedule, it will be producing electricity from wave power in commercial quantities by 2010.
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Wave energy developers Ocean Power Technologies Inc has announced that they have deployed the third PowerBuoy wave generation units off Marine Corps Base near Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The programme is a wave-energy technology trial that is being conducted with the US Navy.
The newly deployed PowerBuoy units are sitting in 100 feet of water around a [...]
An agreement to test Ocean Power Technologies’ (OPT) wave energy device, the PowerBuoy has recently been signed. The testing will be conducted at the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre.
The PowerBuoy is a 150kW ocean-going buoy that converts wave energy to electricity and it is hoped that the PB150 prototype will be ready for deployoment in [...]
