Mon, 15 March 2010
Global engineering firm Siemens has announced its investment in the British tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines.
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has also attracted funding from Carbon Trust, High Tide and other private investors bringing total investment in the company over the past two months to £8.5 million ($13.2 million).
This funding will help MCT in its plans to deploy the UK’s first commercial tidal energy farm in UK waters within the next two years. Since February 2008 the company has partnered RWE npower on plans to develop a tidal farm in waters off Anglesey, north Wales.
SeaGen, MCT’s 1.2 MW prototype commercial tidal energy turbine, has exceeded 1,000 hours of operation in Northern Ireland’s Strangford…
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Thu, 11 March 2010
The Federal Government will fund the removal of foil insulation installed under the Home Insulation Program.
Wed, 10 March 2010
Queensland’s Solar Hot Water Program will no longer go ahead owing to the withdrawal of Federal funding.
Wed, 10 March 2010
The World Wind Energy Association has joined a host of leading clean energy organisations in support of EcoGen 2010, the premier clean energy industry event of 2010.
Tue, 9 March 2010
A commercial scale wave energy farm is set for development in Port Fairy, southwest Victoria.
Tue, 9 March 2010
Moreton Bay Regional Council has embarked upon a $3 million project to capture methane gas emissions from landfill sites at Bunya, Caboolture and Dakabin in southeast Queensland.
