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US Navy signs $8 million OTEC deal with Lockheed Martin
Slightly old news is that Lockheed Martin has penned a deal with the US Navy in September 2009 to "develop critical OTEC system components and further mature its design for an OTEC pilot plant, an incremental step in developing large-scale utility plants. A key part of maturing the plant design includes developing an interface between the system?s cold water pipe and the platform". The deal is worth just over US$8 million.

Labels: lockheed martin, otec, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 16:25

Guam OTEC numbers misleading
According to people who are familiar with the subject (but wanted to remain anonymous) the $1.5 billion quoted as US Navy OTEC work for Guam is essentially wrong. My sources said that they didn't think it would be more than a tenth of that at most. Furthermore, nobody actually knows today where and if the US Navy actually will build any OTEC facilities. The feasibility studies may (or may not) lead to OTEC development at Hawaii, Diego Garcia or Guam.

Labels: diego garcia, Guam, hawaii, otec, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 14:26

Guam OTEC
An interview with American Samoa Territorial Energy Office (TEO) Acting Director Mauigoa Reupena Tagaloa, with Radio New Zealand International, triggered a couple of articles on Guam Newsfactor. The most interesting part of the articles may be the claim that the US Navy would be spending 1.5 Billion to build OTEC for the military facilities on Guam. That seems like a very high number and I would be interested to hear what has been included in that.

Labels: Guam, otec, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 22:36

Guam News Factor on OTEC and the US Navy A piece which investigates the potential relationship between the US Navy and the Guam civil society around shared resources, including fresh water production and power generation.

Labels: Guam, otec, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 11:02

US Navy moving forward with OTEC
The list of people who attended the US Navy "Industry forum day" about OTEC on the 15 May, pretty much reads like a 'who's who' in OTEC in the USA. The presentation mentions possible OTEC installations being Diego Garcia, Guam and three locations in Hawaii. The OTEC roadmap at the end of [PDF] the presentation says that the preliminary design is done and they are in the middle of subsystem design with work on CWP (cold water pipe?) and heat exchanger ongoing.

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posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 16:57

US Navy Diego Garcia OTEC will do SWAC as well
According to this short piece in the Federal Times, the Diego Garcia OTEC will be used to not only produce electricity and fresh water, as we have talked about earlier, but the cold water will also be used for sea water air conditioning (SWAC) as well, which I hadn't seen reported anywhere before.

Labels: diego garcia, otec, swac, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 15:07

US Navy investigating OTEC for Guam
The US Navy is looking to "conduct a feasibility study for implementing an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) facility on Guam. More information can be found in the procurement notice, and the synopsis.

Labels: Guam, otec, US Navy

posted by Thomas Bjelkeman at 14:58