Tag wave power

A new design for wave power can generate electricity regardless of direction of waves. This is still in initial testing. However, given the huge amount of potential energy in waves, should wave power become commercially viable, we could probably power…

This is welcome news. Utility scale wave power will be tested soon off the coast of Oregon. There is so much energy just waiting to be harnessed from waves, enough to power millions of coastal homes, no doubt, and with…

Huge amounts of tidal and wave power energy is just waiting to be harnessed off the coast of Britain, says a new report from their government.

Eco Wave Power has successfully tested wave power devices in stormy conditions in the Black Sea. Two of their rather small devices can power 6-10 houses steadily. Imagine, they say, what 100 commercial-scale devices could do. Let’s hope it happens.

German utility firm RWE npower renewables has withdrawn its backing for the world’s largest “wave farm”, throwing the future of the 4MW facility in doubt, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Part of this was triggered by financial problems within RWE…