Switching from prepreg to RTM led to significant time and cost savings for the manufacture of fiberglass struts and complex carbon fiber composite foils that power ORPC’s RivGen systems.
Learn more at https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/preview/8441a876-1a79-40c5-bfbe-e079088ce1ff
The tidal energy industry has been picking up steam over the past 20 or years or so, offering the promise of zero emission electricity from the natural, predictable, relentless, and infinite motion of the tides.
Learn more at https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/27/a-giant-wave-of-tidal-energy-is-coming-for-your-diesel-generators/
The Portland company harnesses the power of moving water to provide renewable energy. The project in the Mississippi is expected to bring visibility to the hydrokinetic technology pioneered by ORPC.
Learn more at https://www.pressherald.com/2023/10/24/portland-renewable-power-company-enters-deal-with-shell-on-mississippi-river-project/
U.S.-based marine energy technology developer ORPC has signed a contract with Shell Technology – Marine Renewable Program for the purchase of two next-generation Modular RivGen devices that will be deployed as a technology demonstration at a Shell facility on the Lower Mississippi River in 2024.
ORPC’s Modular RivGen device was developed in part with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). Watch this video to get an inside look at its recent deployment in Millinocket, Maine.
Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvSxcHCm1uM
The EU-backed CRIMSON project has moved to the next stage with the delivery of new foils for ORPC’s tidal energy turbine.
Learn more at https://www.offshore-energy.biz/crimson-tidal-energy-project-enters-next-phase/
ORPC plans to install demonstration projects between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
ORPC, an internationally recognised marine renewable energy developer whose power systems harness the energy of free-flowing rivers and tides, is working together with Shell Technology – Marine Renewable Program to initiate a Modular RivGen® Power System demonstration project in the Lower Mississippi River.
Learn more at https://www.marinelink.com/news/shell-aims-harness-power-lower-504809
Maine-based ORPC builds devices that generate emission-free electricity from the free-flowing currents of rivers, tides, canals and dams…CEO Stuart Davies talks with Hydro Leader about his company’s projects.
Learn more at https://hydroleadermagazine.com/volume-4-issue-2-february/#dearflip-df_1930/9/
Engagement with remote communities helps maker of river-driven power system scale up
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