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Dec 25, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Ocean Power Technologies Inc., a renewable energy company, has reported net loss attributable to the company of $4.75 million, or $0.46 loss per share, for the second quarter ended October 31, 2012, compared ...

The event was held at Seacoast Volkswagen, a car dealership on Ocean Road in Greenland where owner Doug Miles has installed both a small wind turbine and an array of solar panels. The report, “Wind Power for a Cleaner America: Reducing Global ...

Taking up where its Territorial Sea Plan Advisory Committee left off in December, the state Ocean Policy Advisory Council plans to meet in North Bend Jan. 3-4 to hammer out recommendations for siting wave energy development.

Science expedition features lively and informative blog By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Even in the most remote and darkest depths of the ocean, life finds a way to flourish — in some cases by clustering around geothermal vents where unusual geochemical processes nurture communities of fantastic organisms that can thrive without sunlight more than [

SUMMIT COUNTY — Even in the most remote and darkest depths of the ocean, life finds a way to flourish — in some cases by clustering around geothermal vents where unusual geochemical processes nurture communities of fantastic organisms that can ...

Following last week's U.S. Department of Energy awards to two Maine offshore wind engineering, site evaluation and planning projects, the Maine Composites Alliance (MCA), Maine Wind Industry Initiative (MWII) and Environmental and Energy Technology ...

A project to extract energy from ocean waves off the west coast of Ireland was awarded E19.8 million of funding by the EU Commission today. The project plans to demonstrate the potential of scaling up wave energy. Six wave energy capture devices will be placed at a depth of 15 metres.

Keahole Solar Power has named energy executive Harry Jackson president of the Hawaii-based company, which plans to bring 30 megawatts of renewable energy to the Islands by 2015. Jackson was most recently president of Honolulu-based Ocean ...

The key is the combination of renewable energy sources and energy storage, "which we did by an exhaustive search - and to calculate costs correctly," says Willett Kempton, professor at Univerity of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

Algae farming or alga culture is being commercially researched for producing numerous biofuels such as vegetable oil, biodiesel, biogasoline, biomethanol, bioethanol, biobutanol on lands that are not arable. Companies such as Solix Biosystems, owned and operated by an Indian tribe known as ... Algae fuel, also referred to as Algal biofuel, is an innovative alternative to fossil fuel that uses naturally available algae to form fuel

The Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery near Clatskanie will place rail shipments of light crude oil and ethanol on ocean-going barges.

Developers are expected to bid for federal leases off the coast of Wilmington and Kitty Hawk. A government task force says about 1,900 square miles are suitable for turbines.

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Two areas off the Cape Fear coast are part of the Obama administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced today it is publishing a Call for Information and Nominations to gauge the offshore wind industry's interest in acquiring commercial wind leases in three areas offshore

Electro Standards Laboratories, Cranston, RI, has extended the science in Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Systems. The company is addressing the need for extended operation of autonomous sensor buoys and other remote ocean platforms. Many existing remote ocean-based platforms are powered by batteries or by batteries in combination with solar power