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Commenting, Shmuel Ovadia, Managing Director of SDE Energy, said: “Our system is built on one side of wave gatherers, which can also serve as breakers. It is composed of a system of channels of hydraulic oil, whereby the rise of the pistons creates pressure on the hydraulic oil. The hydraulic oil is accumulated in a pressurized container and is then directed toward a hydraulic motor. This energy turns an electrical generator, which produces electricity.”

Wikepedia offers this insight as to how the system works: A buoyant metal plate is attached at one side to a concrete seawall. …

… of a U.S. company, Floating Power Inc., to commercialize the Danish company’s Poseidon Wave/Wind Energy Platform that has successfully demonstrated the capacity to generate both hydraulic power from waves interacting with floats and electricity from wind using turbines mounted on the platform.

The Oregon company holds exclusive rights to Poseidon installations throughout the Americas & U.S. government facilities worldwide.

The Danish company has spent over 12 years and approximately US$12 million to develop Poseidon, and data from a two-year, offshore, grid-connected test confirms the platform delivers increased stability and energy …

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In New York, the report finds a total 37.4 GW of wind potential in shallow water, 15 GW of which are commercially viable when environmental and socioeconomic factors are taken into account. The report includes a chart for each state’s offshore wind resource, breaking down the data by water depth and distance offshore.

Featured in the report, the Long Island-NYC Offshore Wind Project is expected to solicit bids from private developers early next year. Transmission and environmental studies …

Ireland and Scotland Banking on Wind Energy

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Ireland and Scotland are looking to their offshore winds as a viable renewable energy source.

Scotland has committed to an ambitious target of supplying 50% of their total energy from renewable sources by …

A “FULLY developed” all-Ireland ocean energy sector could be worth about €9 billion and fuel the home and global market by 2030, a new report says.

Up to 52,000 jobs could be created in wave energy and 17,000 posts in tidal energy if the Government’s 2020 renewable targets were met, according to the report by a British consultancy firm.

The SQW Energy economic study for ocean energy development in Ireland was commissioned by the Government’s Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland.

It says that if there was an “appropriate …