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Marine Renewables

  • Buoy reporters at Wave Hub site

    01 Jun 2008

    The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) has ordered eight Fugro Oceanor Seawatch Mini II buoys to form the core of an instrumentation network at the Wave Hub site off the South West of England. 

  • Funding for Oscillating Water Column development

    01 Jun 2008

    A partnership between Cornwall based wave energy developer Orecon; Peter Brotherhood Ltd, a leader in the design and manufacture of turbines; Converteam, the UK’s largest supplier of electrical systems to the renewable market and Cranfield University, is to receive a £500,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board to carry out development work on Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology, used in Orecon’s wave energy buoys. 

  • Wave power follows in wake of wind

    01 Jun 2008

    A new wave power station on the Isle of Lewis, one of the first in the world, moved a step closer last month as npower renewables submitted a planning application for the ground-breaking scheme. 

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