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The OTEC Liaison
The newsletter The OTEC Liaison was published from 1977 to 1983. Although old, these contain a lot of useful OTEC information. Richard Meyer of The Ocean Energy Council kindly donated a set of issues for us to add to the OTEC Library's new section The OTEC Liaison. It will take some time to scan them in, but we will add them to the library as we scan them in.
posted by bjelkeman at 21:30

Land-based oceanic industry on Mauritius
Dr. Suddhoo, the Executive Director of the Mauritius Research Council tells us about the proposal to set up a Land-based Oceanic Industry (LBOI), based on the success of NELHA on Hawaii. The vision is to use deep-sea water in a variety of applications, including facilities cooling, desalination of bottled water, aquaculture and more. Dr. Suddhoo tell us that they have confirmed that their deep waters do have the desired properties, i.e temperature, purity, minerals and nutrient to enable the development of the LBOI and that "a team of engineers will soon be working of the design of the pipe laying which is required to bring the water from about 3 km off the coast".
posted by bjelkeman at 16:34

OEC web site
The Ocean Energy Council has updated their web site to have a lot more information available on it. The site among other things contains a resource library with regards to ocean energy, a calendar of events and news stories.
posted by bjelkeman at 16:24

Sea Solar Power building an OTEC on Grand Cayman
According to CaymanianCompass, the Caribbean Utilities Company together with Sea Solar Power is going to build an OTEC prototype plant [cached]. According to the article the power plant will produce fresh potable water as well, which most likely means a hybrid OTEC will be used. They say it will be completed in two years. More information about Sea Solar Power's hybrid OTEC design.

In related news, the "Ideas Editor" of the Baltimore Sun argues that the US needs to get back on track and invest in OTEC as a future power source. Sea Solar Power is based in Baltimore.
posted by bjelkeman at 14:34

OTEC for Mauritius?
According to Business in Africa Online [cached], the Mauritius government is investigating OTEC and windpower as potential future energy sources. "Mauritius, being quite exposed to windy conditions, is exploring possibilities for wind energy exploitation,” says a government briefing. “The country is also envisaging the use of ocean thermal energy conversion is geographically well placed to harness ocean energy.”
posted by bjelkeman at 19:17