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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 – Microgeneration technologies

For the purposes of the Act, microgeneration technologies include: *biomass *biofuels *fuel cells *photovoltaics *water (including wave power and tidal power) *wind power *solar power *geothermal sources *combined heat and power systems Adapted from the Wikipedia article Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see [...]

Ocean power in New Zealand – Introduction

M2. The M stands for the moon and the 2 stands for twice a day. A fourth influence occurs because the orbit the moon moves around the earth and the orbit the earth moves around the sun are more elliptical than circular. The effect of this is that the time between high tides changes a [...]

Barrow-in-Furness – Regeneration

The Waterfront Many areas of the town have seen regeneration in the 1990s, and on 28 September 2007 Barrow’s £200 million Dockland regeneration project began. Due to be completed by 2020, the project includes a new ‘Barrow Marina Village’ which will incorporate an £8 million 400-berth marina, 600 houses, restaurants, shops, hotels and a new [...]

North Sea – Economy

Political status The countries bordering the North Sea all claim the of territorial waters within which they have exclusive fishing rights. The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union (EU) exists to coordinate fishing rights and assist with disputes between EU states and the EU border state of Norway. After the discovery of mineral resources [...]

Cook Strait – Tidal power

In April 2008, a resource consent was granted to Neptune Power for the installation of a $10 million experimental underwater tidal stream turbine capable of producing one megawatt. The turbine has been designed in Britain, and will be built in New Zealand. It will be 14 metres in diameter and constructed of carbon fibre. It [...]

RenewableUK – Introduction

RenewableUK, formerly known as the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), is the trade association for wind power, wave power and tidal power industries in the United Kingdom. RenewableUK has over 600 corporate members, from wind, wave and tidal stream power generation and associated industries The association carries out research, and co-ordinates statistics and intelligence on [...]

Tory Channel – Tidal power

Energy Pacifica has applied for resource consent to install up to ten underwater tidal stream turbine, each able to produce up to 1.2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to Tory Channel. They claim Tory Channel has tidal flows of 3.6 metres per second with good bathymetry and access to the electricity network. Adapted from [...]

Basilan – Land

The province of Basilan has an aggregate historical jurisdiction of 135,892 hectares, with mainland Basilan encompassing an area of 124,892 hectares. The province of Basilan includes all of Basilan Island (including the City of Isabela which forms part of the province although it is excluded from the Autonomous Region) and offshore islands, together with the [...]

Tidal power – Global environmental impact

A tidal power scheme is a long-term source of electricity. A proposal for the Severn Barrage, if built, has been projected to save 18& million tonnes of coal per year of operation. This decreases the output of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. If fossil fuel resources decline during the 21st century, as predicted by Hubbert [...]

Energy Policy Act of 2005 – Provisions

General provisions *Under an amendment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Section 406, authorizes loan guarantees for innovative technologies that avoid greenhouse gases, which might include advanced nuclear reactor designs, such as pebble bed modular reactors (PBMRs) as well as clean coal and renewable energy; *Increases the amount of biofuel (usually ethanol) [...]

Tidal power – Categories of tidal power

Tidal power can be classified into three main types: * Tidal stream systems make use of the kinetic energy of moving water to power turbines, in a similar way to windmills that use moving air. This method is gaining in popularity because of the lower cost and lower ecological impact compared to barrages. * Barrages [...]

Verdant Power – Introduction

Verdant Power is a maker and installer of tidal power and hydroelectric systems. Their primary device is an underwater turbine, similar to a three-bladed wind turbine, that is designed to capture energy from tidal currents and (precipitation-driven) river currents. The company uses the trade term “kinetic hydropower” to distinguish their systems from those (tidal and [...]

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