2006

Ocean energy gets a deeper look, News-Leader, 28 August 2006 (PDF 68 kB)

With oil topping $70 a barrel and fuel costs soaring, engineers and scientists are again focusing on how to wring power from one of the world's largest reservoir of renewable energy — the oceans. New projects seeking ways to use the oceans' thermal energy, tidal power and wave action are under way from Maine to Oregon to Hawaii in the United States and are widespread in Europe.

Renewable energy idea in hands of local utility firms, Cayman Net News, 20 July 2006 (PDF 524 kB)

A government delegation from the Cayman Islands recently travelled to Baltimore, WA, USA, to meet Sea Solar Power. The Minister of Communications, Works and Infrastructure, the Hon. Arden McLean, was joined by officials in the administration and the heads of water and power companies on the Cayman Islands.

American Samoa looks at alternative energy sources [OTEC] to offset rising fuel prices, Radio New Zealand, 29 June 2006 (PDF 28 kb)

American Samoa's Power Authority or ASPA says the US Department of Interior is supporting its efforts to develop alternative energy sources to offset rising fuel prices. ASPA's chief operations officer, Fonoti Perelini Perelini, says its looking at two options at the moment. Fonoti says one option is OTEC or ocean thermal energy conversion, and the other is wind power (1 page).

Deep seawater business booming in Hawaii, Mainichi Interactive, 7 June 2006 (PDF 40 kb)

State exports of desalinated deep seawater soared 700 percent during the first three months of this year to $8.8 million, topping chocolate and coffee as Hawaii's biggest food-related export (1 page).

NELHA to partner in energy plant, West Hawaii Today, 6 June 2006 (PDF 240 kb)

This article describes the OCEES OTEC which will be built at NELHA. "We've been pursuing this for about eight years," said Steve Oney, executive vice president of OCEES. "We had a proposal in 2000 or 2001, and now we're in the process of commercializing this process." (2 pages).

Saipan Commonwealth Utility Corp. considers OTEC, Saipan Tribune, 3 June 2006 (PDF 72k)

Commonwealth Utility Corp. Lt. Governor Tim Villagomez said "We are looking at wind energy, OTEC. We are looking at having renewable energy sources." (2 pages).

Hawaiian Electric Co. considers OTEC, Honolulu Advertiser, 3 June 2006 (PDF 100kb)

Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) is considering OTEC as part of the renewable energy mix for the islands (2 pages).

Taiwan Atomic Energy Council reserach laboratories are working on OTEC, The China Post, 2 June 2006 (PDF 76 kb)

Atomic Energy Council reserach laboratories are working on renewable energy technologies, including OTEC, according to an official statement (1 page).

Sea Solar Power OTEC to be built in Gran Cayman, CaymanianCompass, 27 April 2006 (PDF 236 kb)

Caribbean Utilities Company together with Sea Solar Power is going to build an OTEC prototype plant (3 pages).

Mauritius government investigating OTEC, Business in Africa Online, 27 April 2006 (PDF 80 kb)

The Mauritius government is investigating OTEC and windpower as potential future energy sources (2 pages).

OTEC for Cayman Islands, Cayman Net News, 27 March 2006 (PDF 1.7 Mb)

Although diesel is still the most practical and feasible energy source for Grand Cayman, some alternatives are coming into play,” Mr Hew says. Wind turbines may be feasible at current fuel prices and there is promise in the area of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) [...] Mr Hew said that OTEC electricity could well be in production over the next two to three years and CUC has a memorandum of understanding in place with the Baltimore-based company Sea Solar International, should the technology prove viable.

OTEC simulator for Port Blair, The Statesman, 4 March 2006 (PDF 88 kb)

According to the Indian newspaper The Statesman, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) will be setting up a training and research facility, a "renewable energy park", in Port Blair, Andaman Islands. The facility will among other things have a simulated OTEC plant.

OCEES to build Hawaii OTEC, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3 June 2006 (PDF 304 k)

Ocean Engineering & Energy Systems (OCEES) announced on Friday 2 June that they will build a 1 MW OTEC power plant at the National Energy Laboratory Hawaii (NELHA). They also announced that they will build a 13 MW plant for the U.S. military forces at an undisclosed location.

OTEC feasibility study for Antigua, Antigua Sun, 11 January 2006 (PDF 228 kb)

The AntiguaSun reports that the environment division is in the process of preparing a memorandum of understanding with a US based organisation for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) feasibility study. Once government approval is is given the study will be carried out over three months. They do not mention who is going to perform the feasibility study.

Nelha signs third service-mark client, 9 January 2006, Pacific Business News (Honolulu) (PDF 140 kb)

Several companies are betting that distilled water from NELHA is going to become big business. Pacific Business News reports that NELHA now has a service mark [cached] '100 percent Hawaii Deep Seawater' which producers can use against a royalty per gallon of water produced. There are now three companies that are planning to use the service mark. If they went one step further and used the seawater desalination technology from Seawater Greenhouse to produce the drinking water they would have an environmentally friendly production process as well.

OTEC powerplant for Okinotorishima island gets closer, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 5 January 2006 (PDF 112 kb)

According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, the island of Okinotorishima will be subject to a joint reserach project by the National Fisheries University, an independent administrative agency and Saga University to assess whether the island is suitable for an OTEC installation.

Sea Solar Power Inc. to tap sea temperature gradient, 4 January 2006, PESN (PDF 1 Mb)

A report on Sea Solar Power by PureEnergySystems.com