Wave Power Station Heads to Australia

Ocean Power Technologies has teamed up with Griffin Wave Energy, ltd. to bring a wave power station to Western Australia. Griffin is already one of the leading suppliers of diversified energy in Western Australia delivering electricity from gas, coal and wind power.
Ocean Power Technologies is slated to hand over a turnkey wave power station that [...]

Hydro Green Power Gets Boost for River Energy

Hydro Green Power has received a $2.6 million investment by Quercus Trust develop its river and tidal renewable energy generators. This funding will help Hydro Green Power deploy its hydrokinetic technology to states such as Minnesota on the Mississippi River, where testing will begin as early as August.
Hydro Green Power currently has four methods of [...]

Wave Farm Destined For Scottish Waters

I’ve talked before about wave power being the wave of the future. This past January, I even talked about the Finavera AquaBuOYs bobbing up and down off the shores of Northern California. But, now Scotland has thrown their hat in the watery ring of wave power.
In fact, Scotland is dead set on developing the world’s [...]

Finavera AquaBuOYs Provide Wave Power in California

Vancouver, British Columbia company Finavera Renewables, Incorporated has secured a deal from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in Northern California to place its AquaBuoys in the coastal waters in Humboldt County north of San Francisco. The AquaBuoys will generate electricity using wave power for 1,500 homes.
PG&E, the first company in the U. S. to test [...]

Water Power is the Wave of the Future

Man has been using a small percentage of the Earth’s water power for a number of years as many large hydroelectric dams have been constructed. But, this renewable energy resource is only a small fraction of the water power this planet has to offer.
More recently, researchers have been exploring tidal energy, ocean waves and running [...]