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  • Medical emergency on board ship

    18 August 2006

    The HSS fast-ferry sailing between Northern Ireland and Scotland has had to return to Belfast because of a medical emergency. A passenger took ill on the 1220 BST sailing on Friday. A doctor on board the ship advised the captain that the patient needed to get off the vessel as quickly as possible.

  • Editor’s Pick: Highlights of 2015

    29 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Tidal Energy Today’s editors have compiled the list of the news from tidal, wave, and OTEC energy sectors that have marked the year behind us.

  • USA: Army Corps Awards Contract for Jamaica Bay Restoration

    8 April 2012

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District awarded a $3,410,000 contract, March 23, to restore Black Wall and Rulers Bar Marsh Islands in Jamaica Bay, N.Y. The contract was awarded to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company to beneficially use clean sand from the New York-New Jersey Harbor 50 foot deepening project to […]

  • WES bolsters wave energy projects with £2 million

    23 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has awarded £2 million to four wave energy developers who will progress to stage two of its technology development programme.

  • Scotland Renewables Ahead of Schedule

    27 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Statistics published yesterday by DECC show Scotland has almost met its 50 per cent renewable electricity target a year ahead of schedule. The provisional Renewable Electricity Generation 2014 National Statistics show 49.6 per cent of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources in Scotland last year – an increase from 44.4 per cent in 2013. The […]

  • OpenHydro endures Fall of Warness tidal run

    25 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has last week paid a visit to its tidal testing site at Fall of Warness – the location of the first grid-connected tidal energy turbine in Scotland.

  • Five Marine Energy Developers to Share £7.9Mln Funding (UK)

    29 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Five marine energy developers will benefit from £7.9 million funding to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The second round of WATERS (Wave & Tidal Energy: Research, Development & Demonstration Support) funding is to enable Scottish developers and supply chain […]

  • Scottish Government Awards GBP 7.9 Million Funding to Five Marine Energy Developers

    29 August 2012
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Five marine energy developers will benefit from £7.9 million funding to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The second round of WATERS (Wave & Tidal Energy: Research, Development & Demonstration Support) funding is to enable Scottish developers and supply chain […]

  • Scotrenewables’ SR2000 heads to Scotland

    3 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s SR2000 floating tidal turbine has started its journey to Scotland from the Belfast Lough.

  • Evergreen Improves Ireland and UK Services

    29 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Taiwanese-based Evergreen Line has revealed enhancements to its services to/from Dublin (Ireland) and Liverpool (Northwest England). From its hub in Rotterdam the line will offer a twice-weekly service to Dublin and dedicated slots on a weekly basis to Liverpool.   The move is designed to more effectively integrate the line’s services to/from the North of England and Ireland […]

  • USA: Sand Pumping Commences at Jamaica Bay

    3 February 2012

    Yesterday at 3:50 pm the Dredge Vessel “ Dodge Island” arrived in Jamaica Bay with a hold full of clean sand, that had been obtained from the open ocean Ambrose channel approach area off the coast of Rockaway, and hooked up to the Pumping Barge that is currently located in Jamaica Bay just off of […]

  • EMEC’s Max Carcas to Speak at Scottish Renewables Event

    17 March 2014

    EMEC’s Max Carcas will be speaking at the Scottish Renewables Annual Conference and Exhibition taking this week, 18-19th March 2014 in Edinburgh. Max is speaking on Day 2 in the Finance Conference in the Wave and Tidal plenary (parallel 3B) alongside Cameron Johnston (Nautricity), Chris Stark (Scottish Government) and Ray Hunter (RES Offshore). Calum Davidson, […]

  • VIDEO: SAL Offshore Deploys Tidal Turbine

    14 February 2014

    SAL Offshore’s main vessel, the DP Class II MV Lone, equipped with Work Class ROV, successfully installed the VOITH Hytide 1000-13 tidal turbine. Coming directly from her previous employment on the Parbuckling Project (Costa Concordia), the MV Lone proceeded to Stavanger in Norway to mobilize an ROV spread and project equipment. The mobilization was completed […]

  • Nautricity, Fundy Tidal to Develop Tidal Energy Project in Nova Scotia, Canada

    25 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Nautricity Ltd. and Fundy Tidal Inc. have signed an MoU to develop a 500kW tidal project in Nova Scotia, Canada’s Petit Passage. Nautricity is completing system testing of its CoRMaT and Hydro-buoy technologies at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The project at Petit Passage provides flows similar to those […]

  • Western Isles Reinforcing Power Network

    8 June 2015
    Storage

    Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) is establishing a Western Isles renewable energy steering group. The group, which will include representatives from the Comhairle, developers and Community Energy Scotland, will explore opportunities for making best use of the existing electricity network and for connecting additional renewables on the islands ahead of network reinforcement. It […]

  • EU Commission Takes UK, Ireland to Court Over Gas Pipes

    26 January 2012

    The European Commission said today that Ireland and the United Kingdom are not fully in line with EU gas market rules and has decided to refer these countries to the Court of Justice of the European Union. “The maximum interconnection capacity is not offered in the UK and Ireland as the pipeline connecting Northern Ireland […]

  • Statoil to Sell Interest in Norwegian and UK Assets

    19 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil ASA has signed an agreement to divest minority interests in the Gullfaks and Gudrun fields offshore Norway and exit the non-core, non-operated Schiehallion and Rosebank fields, West of Shetlands. In addition to the cash consideration of USD 2.65 billion, the transaction with Austrian oil and gas company OMV includes a contingent payment and involves […]

  • New MRGO Report Released

    12 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a coalition of local community and conservation advocacy groups working to restore wetlands around the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) released a new report yesterday. The MRGO Must Go Coalition’s report – titled “10th  Anniversary of Katrina: Making New Orleans a Sustainable Delta City for the […]

  • UK: Global Collaboration Vital for Growth of Marine Energy

    22 October 2013

    INCREASED connectivity and collaboration between the world’s wave and tidal power test sites is vital to ensure resources are used strategically and to help boost the development of international markets. That was the key message from delegates attending a major international marine energy conference held in Orkney last week. Plans to create an international research […]

  • Eimskip Shuffles Lines

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    ​Icelandic shipping and logistics provider Eimskip has decided to combine its Green and Red Lines in the company’s sailing schedule as of mid-February. The Green Line has served between Iceland and North America with a port call in Sortland and in Norway. Containers with origin in Europe and Scandinavia have been transshipped to the Green Line […]

  • Officials Discuss NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Restoration

    5 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Significant challenges often require a team effort. Restoring the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary is one of them. A group of professionals from the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, recently joined 200+ scientists, engineers, academics and restoration professionals at a major symposium in Manhattan discussing progress restoring the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary and initiatives to […]

  • Scotland’s Renewable Energy Investment Fund Opens for Business

    10 October 2012
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A multi-million pound renewable energy investment fund (REIF), geared to stimulating greater levels of private finance into innovative green power and renewable district heating projects in Scotland, was opened for business by First Minister Alex Salmond today. As senior figures from green energy, finance and government gathered in Edinburgh for the Scottish Low Carbon Investment […]

  • Wave Energy Scotland Boosts Two New Projects

    9 January 2019
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Two new Scottish wave energy devices will take to the sea in 2020 following the award of £7.7 million from Wave Energy Scotland. Both winning firms – Edinburgh-based Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy from Inverness – will use the funds to build half-scale wave energy machines and test them in real ocean conditions at […]

  • USACE’s Cat Island Project Shows Early Signs of Success

    31 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    The USACE Detroit District’s dredge material disposal facility on Cat Island is proving to be an environmental success as wildlife begins to return to the area. Since 2014, just one year into the project, over 385,000 cubic yards of clean dredge material from the Green Bay Harbor (outer) has been placed on Cat Island in […]

  • New ferry port plan gains support

    5 March 2009

    A £70m plan for a new port on the route linking Scotland to Northern Ireland has been backed by councillors. Stena Line wants to move its Irish Sea services out of Stranraer and along the coast to Old House Point in order to cut journey times and fuel costs.