Oceana Energy Company
Oceana Energy is a hardcore technology company that is all about bold thinking and innovation. We build marine turbines that generate electricity that people can afford. With our turbines, tidal energy developers can collect energy from Earth`s oceans and rivers, make a profit, and do it without the need for government subsidies. Instead of modifying atmospheric windmills to operate underwater, Oceana imagined a completely different architecture for collecting marine energy. To begin the design of our turbine, Oceana and U.S. Navy engineers modeled the shape of the outer surfaces of that architecture to collect the most energy from a given column of water. Once they achieved the optimum shape, they set about building the device using new materials and adjacent technologies. They tested prototypes until they had it: a unique, elegant, and robust marine turbine that will withstand harsh seas to generate affordable electricity for people all around the globe.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Wind Energy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About Us
RESEARCH
After designing a turbine specifically suited for the challenges of salt-laden marine environments, the work of Oceana engineers came to the attention of the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, resulting in a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with US Navy engineers that is now in its third three-year renewal.
The test device was then sent to the Tanana River south of Fairbanks for operational, power-generating sea trials to be overseen by the Alaska Energy Authority. During these trials, Oceana engineers worked with professional engineers and engineering students from the Hydrokinetic Research Center at the University of Alaska School of Engineering.
Our Story
Our blue Earth is facing immeasurable disruption.
We have a problem.
In 1986, Oceana’s team, friends and family of investors founded the Climate Institute— the first NGO formed to alert policymakers to the possibility that human activity might be changing Earth’s climate.
15 years ago, the Climate Institute shifted from alerting the population to finding solutions.
Oceana Energy formed as a solution for our future to have affordable, clean electricity, clean drinking water from the sea, and hydrogen fuel.
We have to conceptualize a future that’s different for people.
Dan and his team at Oceana Energy partnered with the Navy and have spent years designing the most adaptive engineering for the ocean.
Oceana Energy has found a way to power our communities that is carbon free, inexpensive, long-lasting and requires little maintenance.
Oceana Energy is innovating sustainable energy.
They are sharing it with the world.
Their courage is powering the next millennium.
Details
How do you hold a great tide in a circle?
To capture the powerful energy of Earth’s tides, Oceana engineers began with nature.
Following first principles, our adaptive architecture follows design cues from the millions of years of evolution found in the tail of a whale.
Oceana Energy powers communities with a carbon free, long lasting and low maintenance magnetic marine turbine.