By Will Wade (Bloomberg) — New York’s East River is set to become the testing ground for a technology that generates electricity from the tides. Verdant Power, a New York-based...

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — A tidal-stream turbine with a diameter bigger than the length of a tractor trailer was installed in China for a project involving Simec Atlantis Energy Ltd.,...

By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — A British developer is bidding to build power turbines under the sea in Scotland in a contest for government contracts that started Monday, aiming to prove...

By Fergus Jensen and Wilda Asmarini JAKARTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) – A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defence company DCNS, aim...

Today’eo Ship Photo Of The Day (SPOTD) features the BlueTEC Texel tidal energy platform. Taking just six months from the drawing board to realisation, the BlueTEC Texel tidal energy platform...

Siemens AG sold its tidal-power unit to Atlantis Resources Ltd. after losing faith in an industry it said was taking too long to grow.

The United States’ first grid-connected tidal power project is now online and delivering electricity to the grid from an underwater power system in Cobscook Bay, Maine, the U.S. Department of Energy said...

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome believed that tidal energy generation was an unrealistic dream. Engineering a turbine to withstand the harsh marine environment and operate at the seafloor appeared to be a challenge the...

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued the United State’s first-ever pilot project license for a renewable tidal energy project to be located in New York City’s East...

In the early 1970s, while Cat Stevens was riding the success of his song Moon Shadow , researchers proposed that the Moon’s shadow during a solar eclipse could set off waves of upper atmosphere...

The British Parliament’s Energy and Climate Change Committee, chaired by Tim Yeo MP, launched an inquiry last week to investigate the potential for marine renewables to contribute towards the UK’s...

Alstom has taken a 40% equity share in Scottish renewable energy company AWS Ocean Energy, representing Alstom’s entry to the wave energy market. Alstom will be a shareholder alongside Shell Technology...

IMC has a very complete post on alternative energy ideas for harnessing power from our oceans. They tell us; Wave power refers to the energy of ocean surface waves and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVBl6hRvdc Generating energy using tides in the Bay of Fundy.