By James Cartledge, BrighterEnergy.org, December 10, 2010

OPT's first PB150 being assembled in Scotland, prior to expected ocean trials later this month. Ocean trials for the PB150 in Oregon are expected later in 2011

Wave power developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) said today it has completed construction on the steel structure for its 150-kilowatt device set for ocean trials next year.

By Ovidiu Sandru, The Green Optimistic, December 3, 2010

A wave power test plant has been deployed on Nov. 17 two miles offshore of Fort Pierce, Fla., and is now being tested by its designers, researchers from Florida Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering.

The power plant has been named “Wing Waves,” and works by harvesting the elliptical motion of waves 30 to 60 feet deep, and converting it into electricity.

By Shetland Times, November 12th, 2010

The type of wave turbine which Vattenfall intends installing off Shetland in 2014 has produced electricity for the first time.
 
The 750 kiloWatt Pelamis P2 machine, named Vagr Atferd, is the first of its type tested anywhere in the world and began generating power on Tuesday last week in Orkney for power company E.ON. It arrived at Orkney’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in May.

By Tom Shelley, Eurekamagazine, October 11, 2010

Engineers given £20,000 for novel rotary wave energy generator.

The money has been awarded to the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) and will fund a research project by Newcastle University's Resource Centre for Innovation and Design (RCID).

StockMarketWire.com - Ocean Power Technologies says it has completed the first-ever grid connection of a wave energy device in the US at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in conjunction with the US Navy.

This connection demonstrates the ability of OPT's PowerBuoy systems to produce utility-grade, renewable energy that can be transmitted to the grid in a manner fully compliant with national and international standards.

The PB40 PowerBuoy is part of OPT's ongoing programme with the US Navy to develop and test the PowerBuoy wave energy technology.

The project began as a small business innovation research programme at the Office of Naval Research.

SIE-CAT™ technology provides a two-phase approach to harnessing wave energy. In many ways, it is analogous to and competitive with a land based hydraulic project:

The inventors of the Searaser, an ocean-based pump that drives an onshore hydro-electric turbine, claim it can generate electricity at a rate of 1.5p per kWh – less than a quarter of the cost of other renewable sources and even lower than coal, gas or nuclear.

By EcoFriend, 2010-05-23

By Renewable Energy World, February 22, 2007

A new pump system designed to turn salt water into fresh water when combined with desalination systems -- and produce clean renewable energy when combined with hydroelectric systems -- is currently being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast.

Press release, Aquamarine Power, June 12, 2009

Aquamarine Power (“Aquamarine”) has been celebrated as a leading force in the UK’s renewable energy sector, winning the coveted ‘Innovator Award 2009’ for its market leading Oyster® wave energy converter at this year’s British Renewable Energy Awards.