Archive for August, 2008
Martin McAdam takes helm at Aquamarine Power
Edinburgh-based marine energy company Aquamarine Power has appointed Martin McAdam as its Chief Executive Officer.McAdam joins Aquamarine from wind farm developer and operator Airtricity where he was Chief Operating Officer. He founded Airtricity’s North American operations which were purchased in 2007 by Eon for £0.75 billion. Airtricity were acquired by Scottish and Southern […]
Student makes $40 wind turbine
In a development which may put the wind up big turbine manufacturers, Max Robson, a 22-yr old Portsmouth University student, has built a 11.3W wind turbine for less than $40. The turbine is made from 100 percent recycled materials and able to be built by unskilled workers in less than a day anywhere in the […]
90MW Offshore wind farm gets go ahead in Teeside
A significant new wind farm, providing up to 30 turbines 1.5km offshore, has been given planning permission to process. Garrad Hassan has been contracted by EDF Energy to undertake the Front End Engineering Development (FEED) study for a Teesside Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of North East England. The project, when fully operational, could […]
Geothermal heats up as Google jumps in
AltaRock Energy Inc, the California based Geothermal energy company, has announced today it closed a $26.25 million second round of financing that will fund the development and demonstration of technology designed to lower the cost of Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) electricity generation. The funding is coming from the company’s first-round investors, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner […]
Australian government gets hot about Geothermal
The Australian Federal Government is giving away $50m to geothermal developers. The money will be used to cover the costs of exploration and drilling. The initiative comes after findings from Geoscience Australia which say that just 1 per cent of Australia’s latent Geothermal energy could produce 26,000 times the amount of energy used by Australians […]
Build begins at Yorkshire wind to Hydrogen plant
Building work has begin on the 225kW wind power plant that will drive the inventive “hydrogen mini-grid” system in South Yorkshire. The system will provide power to the new Environmental Energy Technology Centre (EETC) between Rotherham and Sheffield.Supplementary power will be provided through a 30 kW hydrogen fuel cell system, where excess power from the […]
Aquamarine Power appoint COO from Shell
Marine energy firm Aquamarine Power has appointed former Shell WindEnergy manager Matthias Haag as its new Chief Operating Officer.
Haag will be responsible for the design, manufacture and deployment of Aquamarine’s marine renewable energy technologies including the Oyster® hydro-electric wave power converter and Neptune™, a 2.4MW tidal stream converter.
Thirty-eight year-old German-born Haag previously developed offshore wind […]
Sheringham Shoal wind farm gets green light
A 315MW offshore wind farm known as Sheringham Shoal has received consent from the UK Government Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). This consent, known as Section 36, means the developer, joint-venture company Scira Offshore Energy Ltd, is a step closer to constructing the wind farm on the 35 km2 site in the […]
Lotus develops biofuel hybrid engine
Lotus Engineering, the engineering arm of the iconic British sports car maker, has announced a collaboration with Queen ’s University Belfast and Jaguar Cars Ltd to develop an engine which maximises fuel efficiency when running on renewable fuels. The OMNIVORE concept will employ novel engine architecture to achieve a high thermal efficiency when fuelled on […]
New catalyst boosts biofuel production
A new catalyst developed by Oxford Catalysts looks set to make second-generation biofuel production using small-scale “microchannel” reactors environmentally and economically viable.The catalyst, which is known as a metal carbide Fischer-Tropsch or ‘FT’ catalyst, was produced using Oxford Catalysts’ patented organic matrix combustion method, which makes it possible to achieve high metal loadings, while at […]
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