The Saltire Prize has been set up in Scotland to attract marine renewable energy projects that could bring better access to cheap energy. Dozens of companies will compete for the prize reports the Herald.
The competition …

The Marine Current Turbine SeaGen project in the UK, is the world’s first commercial scale tidal stream turbine. Today it has been reported that the strong tidal flows of Strangford Lough have enabled the turbine …

Existing hydropower technologies require an average current of five or six knots to operate efficiently, while most of the earth’s currents are slower than three knots. This new technology can generate electricity in water flowing …

Artists Impression of a Tidal Turbine
International Power Marine Development, a subsidiary of International Power plc, has secured a grid connection and they will build a 10-Megawatt tidal farm in the Pentland Firth. The scheme is …

Pelamis, the Edinburgh-based wave power company inaugurated its first 2.25 MW wave farm off the coast of Portugal in October 2008. Now it has raised $6 million to continue it’s research and development efforts as …