£10m prize for Scottish wave power projects

A £10m prize has been launched for the first scientists able to demonstre a commercially viable wave or tidal energy system in Scottish waters. The Saltire Prize Challenge was launched in Edinburgh this week and the winning project must be able to achieve a minimum electrical output of 100Gwh over a continuous two-year period using only…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 4, 20083Comments

Energy

Scotland plans world’s largest tidal energy project

Plans to develop the world's largest tidal power project off the coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland have been unveiled today by ScottishPower. Three sites will initially be developed with a combined outpout of 60MW. Two of the sites are in Scotland in the Pentland Firth and the Sound of Islay, with the third off the…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 29, 20080Comments

Smart Cities

£20m for energy-efficient material boffins

The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council aren’t names imbued with rockstar status - unless you like rockstars with a working knowledge of microprocessor innards and the periodic table - but with the money they’re bandying around today, they might as well be asking their underlings for a pound of…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 8, 20080Comments

Energy

Irving Oil switches to tidal energy

Apparently, according to Greenbang's brekkie connoisseur chums, bacon and maple syrup are an unlikely but beautiful marriage. Like Tia Maria and orange juice or Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails. Greenbang is skeptical to say the least. Bacon and maple syrup? You might as well roll stuff a sausage roll with sugar lumps and call…

ByThe Global ViewJune 9, 20080Comments

Energy

Airtricity founder comes back with €200m renewables plan

How do you follow up a massive success? If you're the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the simple answer is you don't: you make Fire and then you go back and sit around for a bit, not bothering the top 40. Eddie O'Connor, the brains behind Airtricity - the wind energy business which sold its US…

ByThe Global ViewJune 5, 20080Comments

Energy

Scots get first tidal turbine onto national grid

While Greenbang was busy getting excited over the delicious red and black stylings of the Seagen turbine that went up in Ireland earlier this month, she's now had her head turned by a new Scottish interest. While SeaGen will be pumping out its electricity goodness into the national grid later this year, the Scots are using…

ByThe Global ViewJune 3, 20080Comments

Energy

SeaGen tidal turbine now up and running

Greenbang has some good news for you. No, that whole Boris Johnson thing wasn't actually a big joke and Constable Beadle isn't about to divest himself of a fake beard and confess to pranking the capital any time soon. The news isn't that good. The news is, rather, this good: remember SeaGen? The soon-to-be erected first…

ByThe Global ViewMay 21, 20082Comments

Energy

Consultants size up Severn for Europe’s biggest tidal generator

Greenbang bonus river fact: According to the font of all knowledge that is Wikipedia, the Severn is the most dangerous river in Britain. Greenbang presumes it used to be a bit tasty with its fists and was once an associate of the Krays. That would make it pretty dangerous in Greenbang's book. Here's another Severn fact:…

ByThe Global ViewMay 9, 20080Comments

Energy

DoE hands out $7m for wave energy boffins

Someone, somewhere at the US Department of Energy has got a little bit mixed up. They're confusing renewable energy grants with Panini stickers and trying to go for a whole set. In its pantheon of grants, the DoE can list biomass with $7 million, it's got solar with $13.7 million, and it's got smart grids at…

ByThe Global ViewMay 7, 20081Comment

Smart Cities

New York Transport gets sustainability makeover

Pop quiz, ten points to the winner. What's new about the "rest rooms" (or toilets to the less euphemism prone) at New York's Penn Station? No? One last guess? Nope? OK, Greenbang will end this terrible suspense and let you know: they're being redesigned at a cost of $5 million and the size of the ladies…

ByThe Global ViewApril 17, 20080Comments

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£10m prize for Scottish wave power projects

Scotland plans world’s largest tidal energy project

£20m for energy-efficient material boffins

Irving Oil switches to tidal energy

Airtricity founder comes back with €200m renewables plan

Scots get first tidal turbine onto national grid

SeaGen tidal turbine now up and running

Consultants size up Severn for Europe’s biggest tidal generator

DoE hands out $7m for wave energy boffins

New York Transport gets sustainability makeover

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