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Carnegie Wave Energy. Tenax Energy - Delivering sustainable tidal energy to Australian communities. Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX:CWE) | Wholesale Investor. Executive Summary Carnegie is an Australian Stock Exchange listed company and is the inventor, developer and 100% owner of the CETO wave energy technology. Fully submerged in the ocean, the CETO technology generates renewable, emissions free electricity and/or desalinated water directly from ocean waves. CETO has been developed over 10 years and with an investment of $70 million by Carnegie and its partners. In 2011 the CETO technology was demonstrated and independently verified at commercial scale by the installation of the CETO 3 unit at Garden Island, WA. Investment Highlights Board & Management Dr Michael Ottaviano Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director As CEO, Michael has raised over $50million in equity, overseen an increase in market capitalisation from $5m to $50m and secured Government funding support for Carnegie’s CETO technology.

Jeff Harding Non-Executive Director From 1995-2005, Jeff was the MD of Pacific Hydro Limited, Australia’s largest renewable energy developer. Carnegie Wave Energy. Wave farm. A wave farm – or wave power farm or wave energy park – is a collection of machines in the same location and used for the generation of wave power electricity.

Wave farms can be either offshore or nearshore, with the former the most promising for the production of large quantities of electricity for the grid. The first wave farm was in Portugal, the Aguçadoura Wave Farm, consisting of three Pelamis machines. The world's largest is planned for Scotland. United Kingdom[edit] Scotland[edit] Funding for a wave farm in Scotland was announced on February 20, 2007 by the Scottish Executive, at a cost of over £4 million, as part of a £13 million funding packages for marine power in Scotland. The farm will be the world's largest with a capacity of 3MW generated by four Pelamis machines.[1] See also: Renewable energy in Scotland.

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT), based in Pennington, New Jersey is involved in the development of a wave farm off Cromarty Firth. England[edit] United States[edit] Italy[edit] Tidal power. Tidal power, also called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity. Although not yet widely used, tidal power has potential for future electricity generation. Tides are more predictable than wind energy and solar power. Among sources of renewable energy, tidal power has traditionally suffered from relatively high cost and limited availability of sites with sufficiently high tidal ranges or flow velocities, thus constricting its total availability.

However, many recent technological developments and improvements, both in design (e.g. dynamic tidal power, tidal lagoons) and turbine technology (e.g. new axial turbines, cross flow turbines), indicate that the total availability of tidal power may be much higher than previously assumed, and that economic and environmental costs may be brought down to competitive levels. Generation of tidal energy[edit] Variation of tides over a day Generating methods[edit] Notes[edit] Wave power. Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water (into reservoirs). A machine able to exploit wave power is generally known as a wave energy converter (WEC).

Wave power is distinct from the diurnal flux of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents. Wave-power generation is not currently a widely employed commercial technology, although there have been attempts to use it since at least 1890.[1] In 2008, the first experimental wave farm was opened in Portugal, at the Aguçadoura Wave Park.[2] The major competitor of wave power is offshore wind power. Physical concepts[edit] When an object bobs up and down on a ripple in a pond, it experiences an elliptical trajectory. Motion of a particle in an ocean wave.A = At deep water. Oscillatory motion is highest at the surface and diminishes exponentially with depth. Wave power formula[edit] [b][10] Wave Energy | Tidal Energy | BioPower Systems.

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