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AWS Ocean Energy secures £3.9 million funding support from WATERS2

AWS Ocean Energy is one of five Scottish marine energy developers to benefit from £7.9 million funding, to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland.

Alstom and SSE Renewables create joint venture to co-develop world's largest wave farm off the coast of Orkney, Scotland

Alstom and the leading Scottish marine developer SSE Renewables have signed a new joint venture agreement to develop the Costa Head Wave Project, an up to 200 Megawatts (MW) wave energy site located north of mainland Orkney, in The Crown Estate’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Strategic Area.

AWS Ocean Energy secures major investment from Alstom - 21t June, 2011

International power company makes first-ever investment in wave energy.

AWS Ocean's Chief Executive selected for HIE Entrepreneurship Development Programme

Simon Grey has been selected for one of the six Highlands and Islands Enterprise sponsored places on the Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) in 2011.

AWS Ocean's Wave energy technology secures backing from the UK Government

Inverness based AWS Ocean Energy has today recieved additional funding support to develop its new wave energy device.

Marine energy making a splash

Grants for wave and tidal energy technologies. A doughnut and an oyster are among five marine energy projects sharing £13 million to harness the power of the sea.

AWS Ocean Energy to receive £1.39m of funding support throught the WATERS programme

Jim Mather, the Scottish Government Minister for Enterprise & Energy confirmed that Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy is to receive £1.39m of funding support through the WATERS (Wave and Tidal Energy: Research, Development and Demonstration Support). The funding will be used by AWS Ocean Energy to further develop it's AWS-III device, a ring-shaped multi-cell surface -floating wave power system, the result of almost two years of intensive research and development work.

Prototype being tested on Loch Ness

Scottish marine energy technology developer, AWS Ocean Energy, has started testing it's new wave energy device in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

New Investment for AWS Ocean Energy

Scottish wave energy company, AWS Ocean Energy has secured a £2 million investment from Scottish Enterprises's Scottish Co-investment fund and the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V., an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell.

AWS Studentship 2009

AWS Ocean Energy Ltd, one of the UK’s leading marine energy technology companies today announced the award of a £2000 MSc dissertation studentship to Olivier Greslou, a French student currently working on a dual masters degree with Heriot-Watt University and the Arts et Métiers Paris Tech graduate school.

Strathpuffer 2009

AWS Ocean Energy Ltd entered a team at The Strathpuffer 2009. ‘The Wave Power Wanderers’ took part in the worlds only winter 24 hour mountain bike race on the 17th and 18th January 2009.

AWS Studentships

AWS Ocean Energy is pleased to announce the launch of two funded studentships for Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde/Glasgow University.

AWS Ocean Energy welcomes Crown Estate plans

Scottish marine energy company, AWS Ocean Energy, today welcomed the announcement from the Crown Estate to encourage the development of tidal and wave power in the Pentland Firth and surrounding waters.

AWS Supports Heriot-Watt

AWS Ocean Energy Ltd, one of Scotland’s and the UK’s leading marine energy technology companies today announced the award of a £2000 MSc dissertation studentship to Heriot-Watt student Gregory Blower. As a result, Gregory will spend the summer at Heriot-Watt’s Orkney campus working with AWS Ocean Energy on the company’s wave energy device which is due to be deployed at EMEC next year.

AWS Are Set To Double Its Workforce

AWS Ocean Energy, one of Scotland’s and the UK’s leading marine energy technology companies, is to double its workforce within the next 12 months. This will prepare the company for the deployment of its Archimedes Waveswing™ energy system off the...

AWS Ocean Energy Secures New Investments

Scottish wave energy company, AWS Ocean Energy, has secured new investments from Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V. (“STV Fund”), an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and the investment fund...

AWS Ocean Energy Recent Article in The Engineer

(15/10/07)
An original method of harnessing wave power using underwater devices claims significant advantages over surface-based systems...
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AWS Ocean Energy Receives Further Support

Scotland’s AWS Ocean Energy is to receive significant further support from the Carbon Trust in the development of the company’s Archimedes Wave Swing (AWS), the world’s first submerged wave energy system. The support is...

We've Won!

Judges at Energy Ocean, the leading international ocean renewables conference held in Hawaii, announced today (23rd August 2007) that AWS Ocean Energy, the company...