OTEC News

OTEC and American SamoaAmerican Samoa’s Power Authority (ASPA) is investigating windpower and OTEC [cached] to replace 13 million gallons of disel fuel per year, according to Radio New Zealand. Fonoti Perelini Perelini, chief operations officer of ASPA, says a consultant is submitting a report to the Department of the Interior and then to Congress . . . → Read More:

More about the OTEC and deepwater success at NELHAA reader in Hawaii tells us about an article in West Hawaii Today [cached] which describes the OCEES OTEC which will be built at NELHA. “We’ve been pursuing this for about eight years,” said Steve Oney, executive vice president of OCEES. “We had a proposal in . . . → Read More:

OCEES to build OTEC on Hawaii and also for the US militaryAccording to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ocean Engineering & Energy Systems (OCEES) announced on Friday 2 June that they will build a 1 MW OTEC power plant [cached] at the National Energy Laboratory Hawaii (NELHA). They also announced that they will build a 13 . . . → Read More:

OTEC under considerationAmidst powercuts worthy of a developing country, Honolulu Advertiser reports that Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) is considering OTEC as part of the renewable energy mix for the islands [cached]. At the same time HECO is planning a new fossil fuel plant and and Jeff Mikulina, director of the Sierra Club’s Hawai’i Chapter . . . → Read More: