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...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power, wind power
Eday, a small island in the Orkneys, has accomplished amazing things, considering it’s remote location, and small population of between 120 and 150 people. My visit to Eday was not by chance, nor was it without surprise. I wanted to see the European Marine...
by admin | Sep 5, 2018 | Blog
Ireland : Breaking News The fate of OpenHydro won’t be determined today in Dublin’s Irish High Court. At approximately 11:08 am (Irish time) in the Irish High Court, today’s presiding judge adjourned the case until tomorrow at 11 am (Irish Time)....
by admin | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog, court, Emera, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
An emergency session involving the fate of OpenHydro was held in the Irish High Court today, presided over by Judge McDonald. “Well it is an emergency when a company’s survival is at stake,” said a source close to the situation, in an afternoon phone...
by admin | Aug 18, 2018 | Blog, Energy Innovation
OpenHydro, the tidal energy development firm that made it’s third dunk to the bottom of the high flow Minas Passage in the Bay Of Fundy last week, has been embroiled in a series of disputes over the last two years according to today’s Business Post...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog, court, Electricity Grid, Emera, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
In the Irish High Court today, Ms. Justice Miriam O’Regan heard there’s a chance Irish based OpenHydro can survive, with a restructuring plan and new investment, according to an independent report. That’s why, on August 17, even though she noted the...
