Feed The Grid

A company called Verdant Power has won the first ever commercial license for a hydrokinetic tidal power facility in the U.S., and that could be just the first drop in a torrent of more than 100 new hydrokinetic projects that are still in the initial stages of permitting around the country. Verdant's project, called RITE for Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy, will tap the powerful currents of New

LUBEC, Maine (AP) -- The Coast Guard is holding a pair of meetings this week to hear from mariners about a tidal energy proposal in Cobscook Bay at Maine's eastern tip.

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Tidal energy made waves around the world this week as Inhabitat reported that Verdant Power was awarded the first license for an East River power project in NYC, while across the pond the UK announced plans for a gigantic 27 gigawatt Marine Energy Park and

The UK government wants to change the support system for the tidal energy sector in 2017, moving away from renewable obligation certificates (ROCs) that renewable power companies can sell to the big utilities and instead using a form of feed-in tariff ...

According to the Department of Energy, the nation's tidal currents off its coasts could potentially provide up to 15 percent of the nation's energy. Here are the details.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed an offshore oil and natural gas lease covering 38 million acres of parcels in  - More -  We're hiring wells, drilling and subsurface professionals now At BP, we're committed to America's economy and energy security. Our operations in the Gulf of Mexico are key to this

... said: “This report provides concrete examples of how emerging ocean industries—including ocean energy and aquaculture industries—can become more profitable, more sustainable, and meet the needs of a growing population without sacrificing the health ...

This is Ocean Power Technology’s 150-kilowatt wave energy buoy deployed off the coast of Scotland. In mid-2012, OPT plans to test a similar buoy 2.5 miles off the coast of Reedsport.

Currently, limits on offshore production keep annual production to only 588 million barrels of oil — or less than 1/10th of our annual demand — even though the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement estimates that the US has ...

Island split over natural gas pipeline and windfarm in move away from oil-based energy generationAs Puerto Rico seeks to lower soaring utility rates while simultaneously shifting toward cleaner energy sources, it faces grassroots opposition to two major projects even though at least one is 100-percent renewable

All three forms of ocean energy just add to the pile of alternative methods for creating electricity, being useless for heat or directly as transportation fuel. Furthermore, only wave energy is conveniently delivered to our shores.

Searaser device that pumps saltwater to an onshore generator has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers An aquatic "bicycle pump" is set to take to the seas and turn wave power into clean electricity after being acquired by green energy company Ecotricity . The Searaser device, which pumps saltwater to an onshore generator, has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers

The US Department of the Interior (DoI) has approved a solar plant in California and a wind farm in Oregon. There are few contexts in which the US can be described as a minnow, but in terms of exploiting wave and tidal energy it is – for the moment.

According to the studies, wave and tidal power could generate about 1,420 terawatt hours, or TWh, of electricity per year. The U.S. uses 4,000 TWh each year.