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  • French offshore renewable energy hybrid leaves sea after two-year trial

    11 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Vision

    The WAVEGEM hybrid autonomous platform, which generates clean power by exploiting both solar and wave energy, has been retrieved ashore after two years of tests at the SEM-REV site offshore France.

  • Scotland urged to set 50% renewable energy target by 2030

    4 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment

    WWF Scotland and Scottish Renewables have called the Scottish Ministers to set a new target to ensure half of all energy used in Scotland comes from renewable sources by 2030.

  • USA: Senator Carper Votes for Alternative Energy Tax Credit

    15 March 2012

    Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) voted for an amendment to preserve key tax credits which encourage the development and deployment of alternative energy measures. These tax credits, which have expired or are set to expire, benefit a number of energy industries in Delaware such as offshore wind, solar, and advanced biofuels. The amendment, offered by […]

  • Norway: Naming Ceremony for PSV Vestland Mira Owned by Vestland Offshore

    23 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Last Friday “Vestland Mira”, owned by the shipping company Vestland Offshore, was named in Balestrand in the Norwegian county of Sogn and Fjordane. Only seven minutes after the naming ceremony, the Havyard-designed vessel “Vestland Mira”, went straight into work on a contract in The North Sea. “We have started on a contract with SGS, a […]

  • Study Explores Oceans and Lakes as Renewable Energy Resources (Canada)

    22 July 2011

    As the demand for energy increases worldwide, the search for renewable and viable sources of power intensifies. Two Ryerson University researchers have taken that search underwater, and using Iran as a test case, have found that oceans and lakes could make an enormous contribution to global energy production.  “Bodies of water are a huge, untapped […]

  • Renewable Energy Joint Venture Investments to Decline in Upcoming Year (USA)

    5 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The amount of venture capital entering cleantech will decline in 2012 for the first time since the global economic downturn in 2008, according to cleantech analysis and consulting company Kachan & Co. The firm, with offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver, has published a set of predictions for the cleantech sector in 2012.  In […]

  • Norway: PSV Vestland Mira Starts North Sea Contract Right After Naming Ceremony

    23 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Last Friday “Vestland Mira”, owned by the shipping company Vestland Offshore, was named in Balestrand in the Norwegian county of Sogn and Fjordane. Only seven minutes after the naming ceremony, the Havyard-designed vessel “Vestland Mira”, went straight into work on a contract in The North Sea. “We have started on a contract with SGS, a […]

  • UK: IMO Secretary-General Issues Message Ahead of Titanic Sinking Anniversary

    13 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has issued a video message ahead of the anniversary on Saturday (14 April) of the sinking of the Titanic, remembering all those who lost their lives in the tragic accident, recalling the improvements to passenger ship safety introduced as a result of that incident and acknowledging the need for continual improvement […]

  • Photos: Norwegian Frigate Continues Sinking

    13 November 2018

    Helge Ingstad has almost completely sunk based on the latest footage released by the Norwegian Navy.

  • Aquatera scouts for renewable energy professionals

    8 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Orkney-based energy and environmental consultancy Aquatera is looking to expand its team with two new job openings.

  • EDF Reconsiders on French Offshore Wind Tenders

    12 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Paris based EDF Energies Nouvelles gives up on bid to construct offshore wind farm at Le Treport. “We’ve taken this decision in order to concentrate on the four other zones,” said David Corchia, CEO of EDF Energies Nouvelles, reports Les Echos. In July French government launched €10 billion offshore wind tender Earlier this year EDF […]

  • Poland to Give More Offshore Wind Support

    31 July 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Polish Economy Ministry presented the newest version of a draft bill on July 27, in which the state cuts the overall support for renewable energy sources between 2013 and 2020. Specifically, the proposed support for biomass and onshore wind power will be reduced in favour of offshore wind and solar power. Reuters brings an explanation […]

  • Maritime Aquarium to Acquire New Research Vessel (USA)

    20 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Maritime Aquarium, South Norwalk, will acquire a new 65-foot catamaran hybrid research vessel in the fall of 2013. According to DarienNewsOnline, the vessel was designed by an Australian naval architecture company. It is a $2.5 million boat which will replace the current 33-year-old diesel trawler “Oceanic”. The vessel will have a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system, […]

  • Research and Markets Presents Report on New Renewable Energy Draft Law in Poland

    21 November 2012

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData’s new report “New Renewable Energy Draft Law in Poland – Will It Make a Difference?” to their offering. Poland’s Ministry of Economy recently presented a new, updated version of the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Act. The updated version is different from the present RES law and […]

  • South Koreans Develop Coordinated Offshore Energy Extraction and Floating Turbine Systems

    15 August 2013
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    A team of specialized experts, consultants and manufacturers based in Seoul, South Korea, have developed Coordinated Offshore Energy Extraction (COEE) and Floating Wind Turbine Foundations and Bridges. The COEE extracts offshore renewable energy; Wave, Tidal, Wind and Solar. The COEE construction unit is a building block for offshore wind farms and Floating Bridges. The Floating […]

  • The Three Gorges First Wind Farm Project (Pvt.) Signs Onshore and Offshore Wind Contract (Pakistan)

    23 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    The contractors would supply and install Goldwind wind turbines. The wind farm of 49.5MW is located in Jhampir, district Thatta Sindh, Pakistan. Chinese Wind Energy Information Center, or CWEI, has announced that The Three Gorges First Wind Farm Project Pvt. Ltd has signed an offshore and onshore wind power engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, […]

  • Australia: CWE to Supply Desalination Plant with Renewable Power

    5 July 2012

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it has been advised by Water Corporation that it wishes to progress discussions for up to 2MW of renewable energy supply for Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (SSDP) exclusively with Carnegie. The Water Corporation is open to either a short term or long term electricity supply […]

  • Australia: CWE to Supply Desalination Plant with Renewable Power

    5 July 2012

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it has been advised by Water Corporation that it wishes to progress discussions for up to 2MW of renewable energy supply for Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (SSDP) exclusively with Carnegie. The Water Corporation is open to either a short term or long term electricity supply […]

  • Ship Owners and Unions Raise Concern at Casualty Reporting Failures

    23 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Shipowners and seafarers’ unions have joined forces to express concern at flag states’ failure to submit maritime casualty reports as required under international Conventions. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents 80% of the world merchant fleet, and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represents seafarers’ unions worldwide, have made a joint submission […]

  • ILO: Algeria Ratifies Maritime Labour Convention

    15 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Algeria recently became the 79th Member State to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the International Labour Organization (ILO). The government of Algeria deposited the instrument of ratification of the MLC, 2006 in late July, marking another step towards worldwide ratification. The MLC, 2006 consolidates and revises the majority of the maritime labour […]

  • USA: South Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium to Get New Research Vessel

    20 July 2012

    Maritime Aquarium, South Norwalk, will acquire a new 65-foot catamaran hybrid research vessel in the fall of 2013. According to DarienNewsOnline, the vessel was designed by an Australian naval architecture company. It is a $2.5 million boat which will replace the current 33-year-old diesel trawler “Oceanic”. The vessel will have a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system, […]

  • Tanzania: Zanzibar Eying Marine Renewables as Reliable Power Source

    26 April 2013
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein officially launched a new 100 megawatts marine cable line from the national grid (Tanzania mainland) on April 10, a sign of energy progress which is expected to lead Zanzibar towards its own “reliable power”. At the celebration of this move, some members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives urged the […]

  • Caterpillar Helps Protect Ormond Beach

    9 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Caterpillar Inc. announced today a $250,000 investment in The Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Resilience program, with specific efforts targeted to Ormond Beach in Ventura County, California. The program will demonstrate how using traditional build infrastructure along with the Earth’s natural infrastructure – beach dunes, floodplains, estuaries, marshes, wetlands and reefs – can productively sequester carbon and […]

  • New Marine Cable in Zanzibar Officially Launched (Tanzania)

    29 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein officially launched a new 100 megawatts marine cable line from the national grid (Tanzania mainland) on April 10, a sign of energy progress which is expected to lead Zanzibar towards its own “reliable power”. At the celebration of this move, some members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives urged the […]

  • Poland to Give More Offshore Wind Support

    31 July 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Polish Economy Ministry presented the newest version of a draft bill on July 27, in which the state cuts the overall support for renewable energy sources between 2013 and 2020. Specifically, the proposed support for biomass and onshore wind power will be reduced in favour of offshore wind and solar power. Reuters brings an explanation […]