A wave power station has been proposed off the coast of Western Australia by a joint partnership agreement announced between Ocean Power Technologies and Griffin Wave Power Ltd. The proposed wave power station will have an initial capacity of 10MW with the potention to expand to 100MW.
The technology used to create the Western Australia Wave […]
Australian company BioPower Systems Pty Ltd has secured funding for a new ocean power system they have called bioWAVE. The system is a unique method of harnessing the power of the ocean. The bioWAVE device mimics the way marine plants respond to the movement of the currents and tides of the ocean.
The funding has amounted […]
There have been a range of proposed wave power demonstration projects announced in the last 12 months using an array of newly developed devices - a list of the devices have been included at the end of this post.
AWS Ocean Energy have been developing their own device - called the Archimedes Waveswing energy system - […]
A planning application has been submitted for a new wave power station on the Isle of Lewis in the UK. The Siadar Bay Wave Energy Project aims to generate 4MW of electricity by harnessing the power in the waves of Siadar Bay.
The project is a joint scheme between npower renewables, one of the UK’s leading […]
A demonstration 1MW wave power plant has been planned for Makah Bay in Clallam County, Washington. Behind the proposal is Finavera Renewables who are currently in the process of developing 5 projects with their AquaBuOY technology.
Back in November 2006 Finavera filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct the offshore power […]
A recent announcement has confirmed that Oceanlinx Limited, an Australia-based high-tech company, will provide electricity to Maui Electric Company from Hawaii’s first wave energy project. The project aims to provide up to 2.7 megawatts using 3 Oceanlinx wave energy converters (WECs) that will be located about a kilometre due north of Pauwela Point on the northeast coast of Maui.
Oceanlinx is an […]
