POSEIDON : the hybrid wind and wave system tested at sea with an intelligent control system.

LOLLAND - (Denmark) -  26/10/2011 - Marine Renewable Energy Ltd.
Original Article by Francis Rousseau  - translated and edited by Christopher Longmore

The  POSEIDON hybrid technology wind/wave system was invented a dozen years ago. A prototype has been in the sea for two years and has now been linked to the Danish grid by Floating Power Plant. The company continues to offer further proof of its dynamism. Floating Power Plant has now teamed up with Critical Software to develop a control system to mount on the test platform at sea. 

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CURRENT POWER SWEDEN : a vertical tidal turbine

(STOCKHOLM - Sweden) - 25 /10/2011 - Marine Renewable Energy Ltd
Original Article by Francis Rousseau  - translated and edited by Christopher Longmore

This is a vertical axis tidal turbine directly linked to a synchronous fixed magnet generator, based on the same prnciples as the Vertiwind turbine and the tidal turbine HARVEST - similar but adapted to a marine environment.

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UK Government to adjust renewable energy subsidies

 

London - (United Kingdom)

26/10/2011

Article by Christopher LONGMORE for Marine Renewable Energy Ltd

The amount of support to offshore wind will decline over the next five years, it will be cut less than had been planned, under the proposals put out for consultation today. Under the plans, smaller-scale wave and tidal stream projects, which harness the flow of the tide, would receive many times more support than other types of renewable energy in a bid to encourage those technologies. Illustrated is a wave power unit currently being installed for Stewart Island and the Raz de Sein off the French Brittany coast - an area rich in untapped wave and tidal power.

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SKYSAILS POWER :High Altitude Wind Energy

BRISTOL-  (United Kingdom)
21/10/2011 - Marine Renewable Energy
Original Article by Francis Rousseau  - translated and edited by Christopher Longmore

A few weeks ago, GL Garrad Hassan,  a subsidiary of Germanischer Lloyd, one of the most highly regarded consutancy practices in the field of renewable energy - particularly marine renewables -  published the first report ever into a little known technology: High Altitude Wind Energy (HAWE). This exhaustive report analyses both the potential of high altitude wind energy and current technologies, their level of development, and market potential, as well as the technical and reglementary challenges to this emerging industry that further pushes back the frontiers of offshore wind. It seems that among the 20 companies involved, one, Skysails, often mentioned here, is the best placed for the future.

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LANGLEE WAVE POWER installs a wave power plant in New Zealand.

STEWART ISLAND - (New Zealand) -  20/10/2011 - Mer-Veille-MRE
Original Article by Francis Rousseau  - translated and edited by Christopher Longmore
Anxious not to get left behind by its Australian neighbour in the field of renewable energy, New Zealand is increasing the marine energy projects off its shores:

• 600m dollars for Crest Energy 200 x 1.2 Mw tidal turbines project off Kaipara Harbour
• 1.8m dollars for a wave energy project with the Norwegian Langlee Wave Power and Tangaroa Energy intended to power Stewart Island by 2013.

 These projects have been under way for some months now, but as is the case all over the world, recent government financial aid suddenly made them visible to the numerous possible investors all over the world.

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