Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:20:07 +0000
Revamped Software Offers Marine Energy Industry the Data It Needs To Succeed, Ocean Energy & River Power Is marine energy finally here? This question, in various forms, pops up in news articles every year if not every month. In 2021, Wired Magazine claimed, “The United States is finally trying to unlock the power of wave energy.” In 2022, […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:03:49 +0000
Six teams of marine energy innovators are angling to free their ocean-observing technologies from their tethers and set sail to test their recharging abilities. The multistage Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize challenges competitors to integrate marine renewable energy into ocean observation platforms. The end goal? To devise tomorrow’s hurricane-monitoring devices and protect coastal communities from dangerous […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:50:38 +0000
On a sun-filled winter day, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers visited Jennette’s Pier, which sits on the shore of Nags Head beach in North Carolina. Amid salty air and crashing waves, the crew deployed a wave-powered desalination test device and anchored it to the nearby seabed — a long-awaited feat for the research team. […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:26:10 +0000
A new remote-controlled mooring system for wave energy devices is part of ARPA-E’s plan for drinking the milkshake of fossil energy stakeholders.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:57:46 +0000
Award Helps Move Cost-Effective, Productive, Robust Wave Energy Design a Step Closer to Commercialization and Widespread Use In 1974, Stephen Salter, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, sent his “ducks” into the Scottish seas, launching the world’s first major wave energy project. But the ocean’s rough heaves and surges proved too much for his house-sized, […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:45:37 +0000
USA seeks to catapult self into vanguard of ocean energy R&D with PacWave South, a first-of-its-kind wave power test site off the coast of Oregon.