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  • Online service goes live for tidal and wave collaborations

    13 December 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) and National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) have launched an online service to help subsea supply companies work together in bidding for contracts in wave and tidal energy.

  • C-Power, OWI-Lab, VUB Studying Foundations as They Grow Old

    5 September 2016
    Research & Development

    C-Power, which operates the first wind farm off the Belgian coast, has teamed up with Sirris/OWI-Lab and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to keep track of the ageing process of foundations. This represents a unique European research into ageing process in offshore turbine foundations, the project partners said, which will allow optimising structural maintenance based on field data […]

  • Sweden Grants EUR 2 Mln for Wave Energy System Inspired by Human Heart

    26 May 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Technology

    The Swedish Energy Agency has granted the company Corpower Ocean AB 2 million EUR to conduct tests of its innovative concept for wave power. The project is part of a larger collaboration with KIC InnoEnergy, the Spanish energy company Iberdrola and the Portuguese Research Institute WavEC Offshore Renewables. Corpower will build a new prototype wave […]

  • Wpd to Assist Taiwan with Promoting Offshore Wind Investments

    8 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    German wind power developer wpd AG has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CR Classification Society, two Taiwan’s research and development bodies, and representatives from engineering think tanks, and will assist Taiwan in reaching its aim of increasing domestic financial operators’ willingness to invest in offshore wind farms.

  • ORE Catapult and Tus Expand Partnership in China

    10 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Tus Holdings have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the People’s Government of Qingdao and the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology in China. The MoU comes as part of ORE Catapult and Tus Holdings’ partnership, under which they established the TUS-ORE Catapult Research Centre (TORC) for offshore wind in China. […]

  • NREL Unveils 15MW Reference Offshore Wind Turbine

    14 February 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released open-access designs of the International Energy Agency (IEA) 15MW reference offshore wind turbine.

  • Deltares: Edelman Award Presented at National Delta Congress

    8 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    At the fourth National Delta Congress, the prestigious American Franz Edelman Award was handed out to the Dutch consortium who won the award in April 2013 in Texas for the project ‘Economically Efficient Flood Standards to Protect the Netherlands against Flooding’. In the presence of Minister Schultz van Haegen, Anne Robinson, the President of the […]

  • UK universities to share £7.5 million to advance wave energy

    24 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has awarded funding to eight projects looking to develop and test new cutting-edge wave energy technologies.

  • NOC’s new study finds 10 times more plastic in Atlantic

    18 August 2020
    Research & Development

    The mass of ‘invisible’ microplastics found in the upper waters of the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 12- 21 million tonnes, according to research published in the Nature Communications. Significantly, this figure is only for three of the most common types of plastic litter in a limited size range. Yet, it is comparable in magnitude to […]

  • WHOI Names Next VP and Dean for Academic Programs

    7 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has selected Dr. Margaret K. (Meg) Tivey as the next Vice President and Dean for Academic Programs Tivey will oversee all academic programs at WHOI, which include the MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering for graduate students, postdoctoral and undergraduate programs, the graduate-level Geophysical Fluid Dynamics […]

  • Scientists Explore Mariana Back-Arc

    29 December 2016
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A team of geologists, chemists, and biologists aboard research vessel Falkor have finished surveying the largely unexplored Mariana Back-Arc for life at depths greater than 13,000 feet (some 3.96 kilometers). Dr. David Butterfield, JISAO, University of Washington, and Dr. William Chadwick, NOAA-PMEL and Oregon State University, led the group to the Back-Arc; returning for the […]

  • Cathelco MGPS Equipment for RSS Sir David Attenborough

    10 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Cathelco is supplying marine growth prevention systems (MGPS) for the RSS Sir David Attenborough, a polar research vessel commissioned by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) which is being built by Cammell Laird and will be operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The commissioning of the RSS Sir David Attenborough is part of a major […]

  • Saildrone USV Wraps Up Antarctica Campaign

    7 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A seven-meter-long, wind-powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) called a Saildrone has become the first unmanned system to circumnavigate Antarctica. The vehicle, known as SD 1020, was equipped with a suite of climate-grade sensors and collected data in previously unchartered waters, enabling new key insights into ocean and climate processes. The 196-day mission was launched from […]

  • Norwegian Organizations Team Up to Register Plastic in Oceans

    6 July 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Institute of Marine Research, shipowner Torvald Klaveness, Kongsberg and the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association have entered into a public-private partnership to develop a pilot project with the aim of mapping marine plastic and other environmental parameters vital to the health of the oceans. The partners will equip several vessels with advanced sensors to collect data […]

  • Cranfield University to Lead Centre for Doctoral Training

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Cranfield University has been announced as the leader of Centre for Structural Integrity & Materials for Offshore Wind and Marine Renewable Energy. The $13 million centre, among 21 other Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), has been announced by The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Centre of Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) will train fifty […]

  • COP21: Mission Innovation to accelerate clean energy revolution

    30 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Mission Innovation initiative that aims to accelerate the clean energy innovation has been jointly launched by 21 countries at UN Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) currently taking place in Paris. Mission Innovation has been launched in an effort to reinvigorate and accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean […]

  • Dominion Mulls Options After VOWTAP Loses USD 40 Million in Federal Funding

    30 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Dominion Virginia Power is assessing options for its proposed 12MW offshore wind demonstration project off Virginia in light of an announcement that the US Department of Energy is withdrawing USD 40 million in funding. “Naturally, we are disappointed in the DOE’s decision because we still believe that offshore wind has a great potential to deliver clean, […]

  • DeepCwind Maine Offshore Wind Report (USA)

    24 February 2011
    Research & Development

    The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the DeepCwind Consortium released the Maine Offshore Wind Report today. The report is available for download online at DeepCwind.org/offshorewindreport. UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher is leading statewide efforts to develop the technology and infrastructure that will enable Maine to capitalize on deepwater offshore wind as an […]

  • ORJIP Offshore Wind Stage 2 Kicks Off

    27 August 2019
    Research & Development

    The Carbon Trust has launched Stage 2 of the Offshore Renewable Joint Industry Project (ORJIP) for offshore wind. The programme aims to reduce consenting risk, project maturation time, cost and the environmental impact of existing and future offshore wind farms. Over the next four years, ORJIP Offshore Wind Stage 2 will provide a framework to […]

  • Thumbs Up for GBP 89m Technology and Innovation Centre (UK)

    22 February 2012

    The Technology and Innovation Centre will bring together academics and partners from industry and business – from across the international scene – to develop solutions to challenges which are central to economic regeneration and to address key technological challenges faced by society. It is due to be open for business in 2014. Professor Jim McDonald, […]

  • CCS gives thumbs up to SSSRI’s hull monitoring solutions

    3 December 2024
    Certification & Classification, IT & Software, Regulation & Policy

    China Classification Society (CCS) has issued approval in principle (AiP) certificate for the software system of three hull monitoring solutions which were developed by compatriot COSCO Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute (SSSRI). The three solutions that were greenlit are a hull monitoring system (HMS), a hull monitoring system for ships operating in ice (HMSOI) […]

  • Terra Et Aqua: Monitoring Program for Maasvlakte 2

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Port of Rotterdam is expanding to meet the growing demand to accommodate large cargo vessels. The construction of Maasvlakte 2 (MV2) started in September 2008. One of the licensing conditions is the monitoring of the underwater sound produced during its construction, with an emphasis on the establishment of acoustic source levels of the trailing […]

  • FORCE to start real-time collection of subsea data in Bay of Fundy

    26 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Equipment, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) has set out plans to deploy a large cabled monitoring platform in the Minas Passage and share the collected data online as part of continuing efforts to improve environmental data from the Bay of Fundy.

  • RV Professor Khlustin Starts Kamchatka and Kuril Islands Survey

    1 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A grand ceremony was held in Vladivostok to mark the start of a special voyage for research and training ship Professor Khlustin, which is sponsored by Sovcomflot in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Transport and the Russian Geographical Society (RGS). The ceremony was attended by: Sergey Ivanov, Chief of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Yury […]

  • Canada: FORCE Announces Opening of Visitor Centre and Subsea Cable Arrival

    9 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Nova Scotia continues to be a world leader in tidal energy with the completion of a new $1.3-million visitor centre and the arrival of the subsea power cables required to deliver electricity from the Bay of Fundy to Nova Scotia homes and businesses. The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) officially opened the 3,000 […]