tidal power News

The globes second largest geothermal developer set to award contracts capable of delivering 620MW.

Prior to a Nasdaq listing scheduled for early 2010 Blue Wave Energy is seeking $108 million in pre IPO growth financing.

Plans to give additional incentives to wave power systems in Scotland to encourage more business in the region were today supported by The Renewable Energy Centre.

Plans announced yesterday for a study into the feasibility of wind and wave farms off the coast of Northern Ireland and Scotland were heralded as a positive step forward by The Renewable Energy Centre.co.uk

Irish company OpenHydro has become the first company to successfully supply electricity to the national grid using tidal power technology.

This week a large scale, commercial tidal energy generator; SeaGen was installed at Strangford Loch, Northern Ireland. Furthermore Secretary of State, John Hutton approved planning permission for a prototype Pulse Generator in the Humber Estuary.

The Renewable Energy Centre today announced its support of the underwater tidal power station which is to be situated off the Pembrokeshire coast and for which proposals have now been submitted to the UK government.