Wave Power Generation
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Pelamis Wave Power
UK | Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed a novel offshore wave energy converter called Pelamis. Building on technology developed for the offshore industry, the Pelamis has a similar output to a modern wind turbine. The first full-scale pre-production prototype has been built and will be tested at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. |
Manchester Bobber
UK | A floating mass rises and falls under the action of waves and this causes
a pulley and its shaft to oscillate. The freewheel clutch engages during descent
of the float when the pulley speed attempts to exceed the output speed; this
causes the entire shaft system to accelerate. |
Wavegen
UK | We developed and operate Limpet, the world’s first commercial-scale wave energy device that generates wave energy for the grid. |
Oceanlinx
Australia | Oceanlinx’s core patented technology is an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device, based on the established science of wave energy, but one which – when compared to other OWC technologies – offers major improvements in the design of the system, the turbine, and in construction technique.
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Archimedes Wave Swing
Netherlands | The AWS is a unique concept. It is the only wave energy converter that is fully submerged. The AWS consists of two cylinders. The lower cylinder is fixed to the bottom while the upper cylinder, also called floater, moves up and down under the influence of waves. Simultaneously magnets, which are fixed to the upper cylinder, move along a coil. |
Hyper
Drive
Japan | Development, manufacturing and sales of various power
generation products. |
Swell Fuel
USA | Lever operated pivoting float device. |
Grays Harbor
Ocean Energy Company
USA | Wave power generated from platforms that can also support wind turbines. |
Tidal (Stream) Power
(list of tidal energy
project studies) |
UEK
USA | Since 1981 UEK Corporation has developed a practical way to harness river, tidal and ocean currents with hydro kinetic turbines. |
Verdant Power
USA | A systems integrator and a developer of free-flow turbine
systems that generate utility and village-scale electric power from natural
underwater currents. |
Blue Energy Canada
Canada | The Blue Energy Ocean Turbine acts as a highly efficient underwater vertical-axis windmill. Sea water is 832 times denser than air and a non-compressible medium, an 8 knot tidal current is the equivalent of a 390 km/hr wind. Developed by veteran aerospace engineer Barry Davis, the vertical-axis turbine represents two decades of Canadian research and development. |
Lunar Energy
UK |
Rotech is Lunar Energy's appointed Technical Collaborator and they are responsible for the technical development of the technology. They own the Intellectual Property Rights and have granted Lunar Energy an exclusive worldwide
license to commercially develop the technology.
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Marine Current Turbines
UK | Formed to develop technology for exploiting flowing water in general and tidal streams in particular. The goal is both to arrive at cost-effective and reliable power systems and to develop these commercially on a large scale. |
Wave Power Projects
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Wave Hub
UK | Wave Hub is a groundbreaking renewable energy project in the South West of England that aims to create the UK's first offshore facility for the demonstration and proving of the operation of arrays of wave energy generation devices.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) |
Sea Solar Power International
USA | Sea Solar Power is an innovative company that has designed an economically efficient system to harness the solar energy from the tropical oceans to generate electricity, produce desalinated water, and to grow a variety of food for most of the world's population. |
Ocean Energy Associations |
OREC (Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition)
USA | National trade association for the marine renewable energy industry in the United States. Founded in April 2005, OREC was formed to promote the advancement and commercialization of marine renewables and provide a unified voice for the marine renewables industry. |
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