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Cayman Islands government delegation meet Sea Solar Power
A government delegation from the Cayman Islands recently travelled to Baltimore, WA, USA, to meet Sea Solar Power according to an article on Cayman Net News [cached]. The Minister of Communications, Works and Infrastructure, the Hon. Arden McLean, was joined by officials in the administration and the heads of water and power companies on the Cayman Islands. According to the article Mr McLean said the trip was a very positive and productive fact-finding mission. "I support this initiative, as it has the potential to be a more environmentally friendly and sustainable energy supply," he noted.
posted by bjelkeman at 17:51

OCEES and the NELHA OTEC
The picture below left shows the signing of the Letter of Intent with regards to building an OTEC at NELHA, Hawaii. It shows Mr. Ron Baird, CEO of NELHA signing the document, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and OCEES' President Dr. Hans Krock.

In in an email to OTEC News, Stephen Oney, Executive VP of OCEES said "OCEES is entering into a joint venture agreement with the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) and the State of Hawaii to build and operate a commercial facilty at the NELHA site utilizing its existing cold water pipelines. The project will provide electricity and potable water to the facility to support their existing systems and supply their aquaculture and water bottling tenants. This will represent the first commercial plant in operation in the world and is anticipated to be completed and operational in 2008. This project will run concurrently with our other, larger project for the US Department of Defense which will provide the base load power and potable water requirements to a tropical island military facility. We anticipate completion and commissioning of that project in 2009."
posted by bjelkeman at 21:45

McKillop on what should replace the Kyoto treaty
Andrew McKillop, a person not known for mincing his words, writes about why he thinks the Kyoto treaty market-only mechanisms will fail to reach the set targets for reducing greenhouse gases and what we should do instead. McKillop also mentions OTEC as one of the "almost totally ignored large-potential renewable energy resources".
posted by bjelkeman at 21:31

Name change of OTEC News
The observant may notice that we have changed name. We have changed name from OTECnews to OTEC News. Why such a minor change? An important part of the traffic to the site is driven by search engines. Having a web page title and a first line which includes the search term significantly improves the score in a number of search engines, so therefore the change. Also we have noted that a number of people who have referred to the site called it "OTEC News", so we felt it was quite natural to make the change.
posted by bjelkeman at 20:42