Supreme Court to Address Issue With Implications for MHK
It’s not often that the Supreme Court addresses matters with implications for the MHK industry, but tomorrow, the Court is set to hear Pacific Operators Offshore LLP v. Valladolid, which considers whether the Longshoreman’s compensation provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act apply to injuries that occurred off the OCS but related to OCS [...]
FY 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Update
The Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill on September 7, reports Renewable Energy World . Pretty good news for MHK – the bill provides $34 million to the EERE Water Power program – $16 million less than the House-passed RY 2012 Water Power program budget but a [...]
ATLANTIS RESOURCES CORPORATION CONNECTS 1MW TIDAL TURBINE TO THE NATIONAL GRID
The AR1000 turbine becomes Scotland’s first grid-connected 1MW tidal turbine Orkney, Thursday 11th August: Atlantis Resources Corporation, the international marine energy developer, has connected its 1MW AR1000 tidal turbine to the grid at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. The AR1000 becomes Scotland’s first grid-connected, commercial-scale tidal turbine, marking a crucial milestone [...]
Alaska studying viability of harvesting tidal power at Cook Inlet
The Alaska Energy Authority has signed a memorandum of agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct a baseline assessment of tidal hydrokinetic energy in Cook Inlet. The authority said that over the next few years NOAA will measure and model water levels and three-dimensional current, salinity and temperature fields within Cook Inlet [...]
Ocean Power Technologies Deploys Autonomous PowerBuoy for US Navy Maritime Security Program
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a leading wave energy technology company, is pleased to announce the deployment for sea trials of a unique autonomous wave energy device, marking an important milestone in the expansion of the Company’s PowerBuoy product line. This latest deployment is an autonomous PowerBuoy(R) designed and manufactured by OPT under the US Navy’s [...]
An Intern on the Debt Crisis
Being an intern in Washington DC is a privilege at any point in time. I feel especially lucky to be an intern when DC is the talk of the world. Being a political junkie I have followed the debt crisis religiously since arriving in DC. Living with a moderate, a right wing nut and [...]
DC Summer Blog!
Happy Monday OREC members and followers! It must be something in the Washington DC water because I could not wait to get to work on this very Monday morning. Tom Wilson once said, “Mondays are the potholes in the road of life” but I could not disagree more! As I said, it might be something [...]
OREC Summary- DOE Offshore Renewable Energy Conference
As previously posted here, on June 23 and 24, the U.S. Department of Energy held an Offshore Renewable Energy conference on June 23rd and 24th. It was a public meeting on information needs for resource assessment and design conditions. The purpose of the meeting was the focus on the critical and meteorological and oceanographic measurements [...]
DOE Conference
The U.S. Department of Energy held an Offshore Renewable Energy conference on June 23rd and 24th. It was a public meeting on information needs for resource assessment and design conditions. The purpose of the meeting was the focus on the critical and meteorological and oceanographic measurements and data needed to guarantee successful deployment of offshore [...]
July 4th
Happy 4th OREC members and followers. This past week has been a very exciting time to be in the Capital and I feel very fortunate to have experienced it at such a young age. July 4th in Washington, DC is unlike anything else I have ever seen. Patriotism is oozing left and right. I was [...]
