OPT Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:05:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 PowerBuoy-The United States' First Tidal Power Generator Connected To The Grid https://www.greenoptimistic.com/powerbuoy-tidal-power-generator-20100929/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/powerbuoy-tidal-power-generator-20100929/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:05:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10756 Last year, the Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) company has developed a tidal power generator that has now been connected to the energy grid at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii as part of the firm's program with the US Navy to test wave energy technology, giving the US their the first-ever grid connection for a wave energy device.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/powerbuoy-tidal-power-generator-20100929/feed/ 2 10756 Wave Hub Become UK's First Offshore Wave Energy Site and World's Largest https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wave-hub-offshore-wave-energy-site-20100908/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wave-hub-offshore-wave-energy-site-20100908/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:13:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10112 Wave Hub is the name of one of the world's biggest wave energy generation test site. It has been installed off Cornwall's northern coast and is the UK's first offshore wave energy site. Wave Hub will allow four wave energy generator systems to be evaluated simultaneously. The systems also have a total capacity of 20 MW.

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