A Report on Our Website and Blog
September 26, 2007 by Carolyn Elefant
Filed under Uncategorized
OREC’s newly designed website and blog have been up and running since the spring, to rave reviews. Here are some things you should know about our site:
–We installed an open source Google based calendar on the front page which lists activities and conferences of interest to the marine renewables community on the front page. If you’d like to add an event, please let us know.
–We have stocked with website with a number of Reports and Papers that you won’t find elsewhere, and we continue to grow the list of resources. If you’re interested in other reports, you can also check out there reports (embedded in posts) from the FAQ section so that you can answer basic questions on wave and tidal energy.
–Our site is hosted by DreamHost, a carbon neutral company.
–We’ve been tracking website stats; we average about 50 visits per day. More interestingly, average time spent at our site is 2 minutes and 22 seconds, at least four times longer than the 50 seconds that is typical for most sites. That means that people coming to our site and finding value and staying around for it.
Member News
September 26, 2007 by Carolyn Elefant
Filed under Uncategorized
If you’re interested in an update on some of our members’ activities (specifically, Ocean Power Technologies and the Pelamis Wave Compay, f/k/a Ocean Power Delivery, visit this post from my Renewables Offshore Blog. Also in the news is one of our law firm members, Stoel Rives, which announced the release of The Law of Ocean Energy, that you can access online here.
President Sean O’Neill Gives Update on Legislative and Regulatory Developments
September 26, 2007 by Carolyn Elefant
Filed under Legislative Updates, Regulation Watch
If you’d like to get a summary on what’s happening the wave and tidal industry, take a look at Sean O’Neill’s recent Ask the Expertscolumn that summarizes what’s been going on with wave and tidal energy over the past few months. There’s a run down on the status of tax incentives for the House and Senate, funding proposals for ocean renewables on the Hill and an overview of recent regulatory events, including FERC’s proposed pilot process and the jurisdictional conflict between FERC and MMS.