Great Britain’s energy market regulator Ofgem has approved five new undersea energy links, with two creating Great Britain’s first-ever offshore hybrid assets (OHAs), all expected to be operational by the end of 2032. The approved OHA projects include the up to 1.8 GW LionLink, which will connect Du
Irish energy and utility company ESB is set to lead a study that will evaluate the production of green hydrogen and its derivatives in Ireland and the potential transportation pathways to export any excess to Germany.
Netherlands-headquartered subsea solutions provider N-Sea has completed a nearshore export cable repair in the Irish Sea after a fault in one of its client’s four subsea cables reduced transmission capacity between offshore and onshore substations. According to N-Sea, the company was awarded a contr
ORPC Ireland has deployed and started real-sea testing of a next-generation marine hydrokinetic turbine at Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough tidal test site. This marks ORPC Ireland’s first European deployment after 17 previous setups in North America. The testing is part of the X-Flow project, le
A green shipping route and a new container service are envisaged between Ireland and Indiana under a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Backed by recently secured funding, the Green Corridor initiative is commencing a study to assess the feasibility of establishing a zero-emission shipping route between ports of Holyhead and Dublin. If established, it will be the first green route to operate between the UK and Ireland. The Green Cor
Ports in the Atlantic area are one step closer to deploying and using green hydrogen-based technologies through the HYDEA project with a new interactive map containing information on main initiatives and most promising hydrogen applications and opportunities. Launched in November 2023 by the consort
Carnegie Clean Energy, through its wholly owned subsidiary CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWEI), has received a progress payment of €251,100 under the EuropeWave Phase 3 contract. The EuropeWave contract is part of the ACHIEVE Program, facilitating the first deployment of CETO in Europe. This contractu
Ireland-based survey provider Green Rebel has secured a contract for floating LiDAR services for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet in County Mayo. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated pr
CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWEI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie Clean Energy, has secured funding to participate as an industry partner/wave energy technology representative in the Modular Electrical Generator PTO system for wave (MEGA WAVE PTO) project, funded by Horizon Europe.
Marine hydrokinetics pioneer Ocean Energy USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ocean Energy Group Ireland, has deployed what is said to be the world’s first electricity grid-scale wave energy device at the U.S. Navy’s test site in Hawaii. The 826-ton wave energy convertor buoy, the OE-35, was deployed
Jan De Nul has named its new XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), identical to the Fleeming Jenkin ordered last year, after the Irish physicist William Thomson. William Thomson, ordered earlier this year, will have three carousels and a cable-carrying capacity of 28,000 tonnes, the same as the previously o
