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Monday, December 14, 2009
 NOAA bureaucracy a threat to OTEC?Doug Carlsson wonders if NOAA bureaucracy could be a major threat to OTEC implementation? He tells us the grapewine provides the following rumours: "NOAA is so gummed up with bureaucratic inertia due to the “shell shock” it feels over the enormity of ocean thermal energy conversion that it will demand five years of operating data from even a pilot plant before giving OTEC its regulatory blessing. We would love to hear from anyone who can confirm or deny these fears. Friday, November 27, 2009
Honolulu SWAC Honolulu Weekly has an article about the $240 million sea water air-conditioning system (SWAC) which is being built for Honolulu. "Groundbreaking is expected next summer and the first 40 buildings are expected to come online in late 2012. " And there are investors from Stockholm involved, which is interesting, as one of the first systems in the world was built in Stockholm (where I live) and this is being expanded. Friday, November 20, 2009
US NOAA visits Hawaii to talk OTECDoug Carlson tells us about a visit by people from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Hawaii, where they learned more about the OTEC efforts planned for the islands. The visitors will, according to Doug, be responsible for "issuing licenses and permits for OTEC plants and operations". "The NOAA team’s meetings in Hawaii “have brought home how much our learning curve has to be based on what’s happening here in Hawaii,” Kehoe said, adding that he believes Hawaii will be the site for the first OTEC demonstration plant. That first plant therefore will be tailored to the issues that will emerge regarding OTEC here." " Friday, July 17, 2009
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 Thursday, December 04, 2008
Follow up to Oahu, Hawaii, OTEC announcementI asked in a post the other day whether there was one or two OTEC plants under negotiation at Oahu, Hawaii. I asked a source in Hawaii about that and got the answer: Having a list of potential IPP projects is unusual - the utility doesn't usually say anything about their negotiations.Did they make a mistake when they published that document? I suppose the best thing would be to ask Bob Nicholson at Sea Solar Power. So I will... Labels: hawaii, oahu, otec, sea solar power  To a Better PlaceDoug Carlsson points us to the announcement that Better Place, the electric car network company, has picked Hawaii to be one of its initial implementation markets. Some of the others are: Denmark, Ireland, the Bay Area in California and Israel. This is interesting to us for several reasons. Better place has an interesting business model. Hawaii will have OTEC plants soon, and OTEC can then power cars. And our friend and colleague Mark Charmer over at the Movement Design Bureau has been tracking Shai Agassi and Better Place since before he started the company. Labels: better place, electric car, hawaii Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Not one, but two OTEC plants in Hawaii? Thanks to Maria Tome, Hawaii State Energy Office for confirming that the Lookheed Martin OTEC will be built on Oahu, Hawaii. She pointed to this Energy Agreement which was signed by the State of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Electric Companies. Looking a little deeper into the 52 page agreement (2 MB PDF) I found something which I hadn't seemed mentioned before, and I am not sure I understand what it means. On page 45 in the document it says "Cumulative Target Goal (MW per year end)", and has a table. The Lookheed Martin OTEC is in there with 10 MW. But there is a second line with "Sea Solar OTEC 100 MW", to be in place at the same time as the Lookheed Martin installation. Sea Solar OTEC shows up on page 49 as well and as having a "completed term sheet" by Q3 2008, and a proposed "commercial operation date" of Q3 2013. Is there a separate OTEC plant being negotiated with Sea Solar Power for Oahu, Hawaii? Saturday, November 22, 2008
New Scientist on OTEC
New Scientist has a two page article on OTEC in the latest issue (19 Nov. 2008). The article mostly talks about issues related to the recent announcements that Lookheed will build a 10-20 MW OTEC in Hawaii, which we mentioned the other day.Labels: hawaii, lockheed martin, new scientist, otec Friday, November 21, 2008
Hawaii OTEC
Doug Carlsson at Hawaii Energy Options was the first of several people to highlight that the Hawaii governor announced that Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Lockheed Martin Corporation is going to build a 10 MW OTEC plant on Hawaii. What is interesting is that they are not announcing where, although one may presume it is at NELHA. Also it is going to be interesting to see how this announcement affects the smaller OTEC development companies, such as OCEES and Sea Solar Power, who have been holding the flame alive whilst OTEC was out in the oil induced cold. Edit: An unconfirmed report mentions Oahu as the location for the OTEC plant. Labels: hawaii, ITRI, lockheed martin, otec |
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