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Bi-Weekly News March 3, 2010 OREG News
OREG 2010 Annual Conference October 27 & 28, 2010 Vancouver, BC Sheraton Wall Centre
Details on the OREG 2010 conference will be released shortly. A pre-registration opportunity is open for OREG members who can register for only $350, $150 less than the early-bird rate!
OREG at GLOBE 2010 on the Acceleration of the International Commercialization of Ocean Energy
Join David Wheeler, Pro Vice-Chancellor and
Dean of Plymouth Business School and Chris Campbell, Executive Director of the
Ocean Renewable Energy Group at GLOBE 2010 for an interactive roundtable
discussion on the potential of ocean energy and its place in the clean energy,
power industry, and marine sector economies. GLOBE 2010 has been the premier international event dedicated to the business of energy and the environment since 1990 .
Canadian News Premier Dexter Promotes Nova Scotia’s Tidal Energy to Key Congressional Leaders in Washington"Premier Darrell Dexter ... will complete a series of successful meetings with key members of President Barack Obama’s administration, American governors, senators and members of Congress."
Proponents detail their North Coast tidal energy proposal
"Bill Rawlings and Voytek Klaptocz of Mavi Innovations Inc. were at the February 22 meeting of Port Edward council to provide an update on their proposed tidal energy project, including a list of sites that at which they’d applied for a research permit to gather data on tidal flows and potential energy generation."
US News
Oregon is first U.S. site for a wave-power farm
"Construction has begun off Oregon on what would be the nation's first commercial wave-energy farm, said Sean O'Neill, president of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition"
DOE Produces First-of-its-Kind Report on Ocean Power
"The report describes nine types of environmental effects that may occur and describes how monitoring and adaptive management principles might be employed to evaluate and mitigate those effects."
ORPC to Unveil Largest Ocean Energy Device Energy Deployed in US Waters
"With a capacity rating of 60 kilowatts, the TGU will be the largest ocean energy device ever deployed in U.S. waters."
UK News
RSPB warns Severn barrage could be “disastrous”
"A barrage across the Severn Estuary could cause increased flooding and have devastating impacts for wildlife, fishing, tourism and shipping, the RSPB has claimed."
Orkney £3m port redevelopment to buoy marine projects"A former naval base in the Orkneys is set to be redeveloped to service the soon-to-be-announced Pentland Firth leases and other offshore wave and tidal projects around the islands."
Barrow to Millom Bridge Study Launched
"A £60,000 study has been launched into the feasibility of building a barrage or other tidal power device across the Duddon Estuary to generate electricity."
Wavepower generator relies on low-friction bearing material
" Novel bearing and seal technologies are playing a vital role in a new UK-developed wave energy generator due to start testing off the Orkney Islands later this year."
Siemens invests in UK tidal energy company
"Marine Current Turbines (MCT) says Siemens Energy has acquired a minority stake in its tidal current energy turbine, to help deploy Britain’s first commercial tidal energy farm in UK waters within the next two years."
Crown Estate must get Pentland Firth leases right, says REA"The UK is at risk of losing its technological lead in wave and tidal energy if The Crown Estate does not get leasing in the Pentland First right, MPs have been told." EU News
North Mayo waters could facilitate wave energy test site
"The Ocean Energy Development Unit (OEDU) of Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) has deployed a weather buoy off the coast of north Mayo to monitor wave and weather conditions."
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