Sentences with phrase «ocean wind project»

Orsted's Ocean Wind project, planned for about 10 miles off Atlantic City, could generate up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.5 million homes, said company President Thomas Brostrom.

As a result, «There are no banks in the world willing to finance offshore wind in the United States,» whereas at least nine European ocean wind projects have found bank support.

Offshore wind's opportunity costs discourage institutions from providing the billion - dollar financing needed for ocean wind projects.

Not exact matches

New York officials are seeking to expand offshore wind generation in the Atlantic Ocean, and has proposed four new sites for wind energy projects to the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

The project, called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December 2007.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

The agency says it will lease plots of the shelf to developers of wind parks and other renewable energy projects, such as ocean current and wave - harvesting technologies.

In this way, it continues the investigations he began with Automatic, a project in which he used wind and ocean currents to power a series of drawing machines.

Created on an intimate scale, it nevertheless projects a pronounced gravity, prefiguring the extraordinary Peine del Viento (Wind Comb) that Chillida completed in San Sebastián in 1977, whose majestic, sculpted architecture grasps at the air, stretching out towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Climate models project a continued intensification in the Southern Ocean winds throughout the 21st century if atmospheric CO2 continues to increase (28).

Instead, floating wind projects are tethered, or moored, by cables to the ocean floor but don't penetrate the surface.

An illustration of potential designs for floating offshore wind projects, which need to be developed in order to generate wind energy off the coast of California and other states along the Pacific Ocean.

The heads of the two agencies have agreed, in broad terms, that the FERC would have the authority to license ocean wave and tidal energy projects while the interior department would issue the final permits for solar and wind projects in areas beyond the state waters.

The announcement arrived two months after the interior department settled a dispute with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over who has authority over issuing leases and licenses for projects that generate electricity using wind and ocean currents in the outer continental shelf.

JOC.com New York state plans a potentially «game - changing» bid on a federal lease to develop an Atlantic Ocean wind farm that could generate sizeable demand for heavy - lift and other project shipments.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

Ships that are solar and wind powered could change all that, but at the moment there is no political will to even want to investigate the possibilities with studies, and / or test projects aimed at the eventual phase in of truly clean ocean transport.

The researchers then built a statistical model to project how typhoon peak wind speeds are likely to change as the oceans continue to warm in the future.

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If the projects successfully demonstrate the twisted jacket foundations, engineers may use the design in future offshore wind projects in locations such as the Atlantic Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Managemwind projects in locations such as the Atlantic Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagemWind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a project scientist who studies satellite ocean surface wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.

Deepwater Wind ensures that for each project under development, wildlife, the environment, or other users of the ocean won't be adversely impacted.

And now, the National Weather Service projects a whopper of a North Atlantic storm will pack 90 mile - per - hour hurricane strength winds into the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland this week, breaking up even more sea ice.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

Better metocean characterization of the wind, wave, and ocean currents will also help increase certainty of development conditions which is valuable information for planning project layout, turbine siting and engineering.

The previous and present models do project the possibility of a hiatus in warming, most commonly because increased wind shear over tropical oceans can transfer more energy into the oceans especialy during the La Nina phase of the ENSO cycle.

«We'll prudently maintain our offshore wind assets — which includes working with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on a lease for the Delaware project — and continue to seek a buyer or major investor for that project.»

A number of modelling studies have also projected a general tendency for more intense but fewer storms outside the tropics, with a tendency towards more extreme wind events and higher ocean waves in several regions in association with those deepened cyclones.

The project's local contractors included: AECOM, Aero Mechanical Inc., AIS Observers, Aladdin Electric, Badd Brothers, Bay Crane New England, Blount Boats, Challenge Electronics, Communication Systems Inc., DiPrete Engineering, Duffy & Shanley, E.W. Audet, Eagle Elevator, ESS Group, Essex Newbury, Fuss & O'Neill, GeoEnvironmental, GZA, Hart Engineering, Hinckley Allen, Inspire Environmental, Keough & Sweeney, Mayforth Group, Meridan Ocean Services, Mott MacDonald, National Grid, Rhode Island Fast Ferry's Atlantic Wind Transfers, Specialty Diving Services, VHB, Waterson Terminal Services, and WF Shea, among others.

With all of the attention being paid to where the United States» first offshore wind farm will be located — there are existing proposals at various stages for ocean - based offshore wind farms in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York and Texas — New York Power Authority (NYPA) yesterday announced a major public - private initiative for the potential development of wind power projects in the state of New York's fresh waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.

Projects like Cape Wind, proposed for shallow waters just off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, met with fierce objections from residents who felt it would mar the ocean vista.

Windsat is a joint IPO / DOD / NASA risk reduction demonstration project intended to measure ocean surface wind speed and wind direction from space using a polarimetric radiometer.