by admin | May 12, 2022 | Energy Innovation, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
“Sustainable Marine Energy achieved a first in Canadian tidal energy history, delivering power from a floating platform in Grand Passage to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid,” said Premier Houston in a release. Grand Passage, between Brier Island and...
by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog, Electricity Grid, Renewable Energy
CanREA’s Director of Energy Storage, Leonard Olin, knows the value of energy storage. In the association’s newly released Laying the Foundation Paper, he points out priorities for supporting the decarbonization of Canada’s electricity grid with...
by admin | Sep 18, 2018 | Energy Innovation, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
“We installed the platform today,” said Greg Trowse, four days after the Department of Energy and Mines issued a marine renewable permit to Black Rock Tidal, the Nova Scotian partner in the consortium of companies on this project. A floating tidal platform...
by admin | Sep 18, 2018 | OpenHydro, Tidal Power
Weir fisherman Darren Porter’s latest Facebook video, posted a few hours ago, shows Porter and crew member Erica, on his boat, in the Minas Passage of the Bay of Fundy. He says they discovered what he describes as an expensive piece of environmental monitoring...
by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog, court, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
“Over the past week technical experts from OpenHydro (Ireland)” working in Nova Scotia, “determined that the tidal turbine’s rotor is not turning. They believe an internal component failure in the generator caused sufficient damage to prevent...
