Environment News – Page 90
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NewsWaste Shark drone
South African entrepreneur Richard Hardiman has developed a solar-powered aqua-drone that can automatically clean up water pollution and waste in waterways and ports. It has taken 3 years to develop the Waste Shark drone.
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NewsAlderney tidal generation moves forward
With the hiring of Intertek to provide environmental and planning support the project to harness the strong tidal currents of the Island of Alderney has moved a step forward. Intertek has been hired by FAB Link Ltd which is the company that is developing the cross-Channel electricity power cable that ...
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‘MPI Enterprise’ installation contract
MPI Offshore has announced that it has been awarded a contract to install wind turbines on the Nordsee One Offshore Wind Farm. In a short ceremony held in May in Hamburg, the contract was signed by representatives from Senvion and MPI.
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OpenHydro assembly
In France the application authorisation for a building permit for the future energy turbine assembly yard for DCNS-OpenHydro has been signed.
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NewsEco Wave Power completes installation of innovative device in Gibraltar
In late March, Israel-based energy company Eco Wave Power announced that it had successfully completed the first stage installation of a commercial scale wave energy plant off the coast of Gibraltar.
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NewsReport urges greater funding for Irish marine renewables
A recent report by Ireland''s Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA) concludes that marine energy could be ''mainstream'' in Europe by 2050 - and supply up to 100 GW of power. It also argues that there is now a need for a comprehensive funding plan to enable Ireland and other ...
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NewsSecond Cost Reduction Monitoring Framework Report paints positive outlook
During March, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC) released its second Cost Reduction Monitoring Framework Report (CRMF). Among other things, the report finds that ''the industry is confident of driving costs below £100/MWh by 2020 on the back of long-term market certainty.''
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NewsAirborne wind energy technology - soaring into the mainstream?
Long viewed as quirky but largely irrelevant, airborne wind energy generation technology is enjoying something of a quiet renaissance. So, as an innovative UK-developed device creeps ever nearer to commercialisation, what are the chances that the technology will one day soar into the mainstream?
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Verdant Power Surges into Irish Tidal Sector
US-based energy company Verdant Power has formed a joint venture with Irish company Belleville Duggan to develop tidal energy projects in Ireland and the United Kingdom - with the goal of eventually becoming ''one of the leading project developers in the clean-tech sector.''
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NewsUnmanned pollution control: no more sci-fi
“Our approach to designing an Unmanned Surface Vessel for things like water quality checking is to keep it simple,” said Greg Atkinson of Eco Marine Power. “You can go off on a tangent and make everything sci-fi – and you could spend a lifetime developing it.”
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NewsUK offshore wind – dodging the cuts
With over a decade of experience, the UK’s offshore wind programme is building momentum again with progress on Round 2 extensions and impending major construction activity for Round 3, time for an update.
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NewsWave watching: two viewpoints
According to worldwide data, wave energy presents a bigger resource than tidal power which requires certain niche locations. Further, it has an edge over wind or solar energy as waves can be seen forming at a distance. So why is it taking so long to get into the water and ...
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NewsOcean clean-up moves closer
A ''passive pickup'' device to clean plastics from the ocean is to face one of its toughest challenges yet: force 8 or 9 gales and seas to match.
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NewsTurkish side collector
Mavi Deniz is introducing a new concept for OSRVs (Oil spill Recovery Vessels), an oil recovery system capacity of 100 m3/h which is approved by BV Class Notation.
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Offshore wind maintenance conference
ACI’s Optimising Maintenance for Offshore Wind conference will be taking place in Hamburg, Germany, on 5th-6th October 2016. The two day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from the offshore wind industry, associations, consultants, and solution technology providers.
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GWEC report
The Belgium-headquartered Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) recently launched its flagship publication, the ‘Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update’. It claims that the wind power industry set new records across the world last year, and wind is leading the transformation of the global power system, long overdue and very necessary ...
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NewsPerpetuus go-ahead
The Marine Management Organisation has issued a license to operate the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC), a state of the art tidal energy generation project located in the strong tidal race off St Catherine’s Point, off the southern tip of the UK’s Isle of Wight.
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NewsAlternative to floating wind turbines?
Current technology tends to limit offshore wind farms to water depths of less than 50 metres but now technology has been developed that can extend this to depths of up to 200 metres, providing a challenge to the use of expensive floating wind turbines.
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NewsKeel marine harbour skimmer
The design team at UK naval architects Keel Marine has developed a compact skimmer vessel that can operate within the tight confines of a small harbour to remove floating debris and weed.
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NewsNorway and Britain buy Current Buster
The unique oil pollution recovery system developed by Norwegian company AllMaritim has been selected by both Norwegian and British authorities as the preferred system to cope with oil spills in their coastal waters. For Norway this is a repeat order while for Britain the contract with AllMaritim is a new ...
