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  • UK Marine Energy Conference closes in

    21 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    In two weeks’ time, the UK Marine Energy Conference will bring together those at the forefront of wave and tidal technology within the UK and Ireland to Glasgow.

  • EMEC Becomes Assessor Under EU-ETV Scheme

    25 November 2014

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd is helping bring new low-carbon technologies to market. EMEC has been approved as an assessor under the EU’s Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) scheme and will be checking claims about the performance of innovative environmental technologies.  Building on its reputation as a test site, EMEC will issue a Statement […]

  • SELKIE sets up free tank testing for ocean energy developers

    10 January 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    The EU-backed SELKIE project has extended free access to tank testing at its facilities to the marine energy developers in its network.

  • Bombora lines up multiple mWave suppliers

    9 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Welsh-based Bombora Wave Power has awarded several contracts to support the fabrication and subsequent testing of its mWave energy device.

  • Scottish, NI Ministers Commit to Wave and Tidal Development

    27 February 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    At the biggest gathering of its kind in the world, RenewableUK’s wave and tidal energy conference, Ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have re-affirmed their commitment to developing the UK’s massive marine energy resources to their full potential – and there’s been a major announcement on new funding. The Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing told […]

  • Pelamis P2 Wave Machines Reach 10,000 Hours of Grid-Connected Operation

    5 June 2014
    Storage, Technology

    Two Pelamis P2 machines, currently deployed at the wave test site of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, have this week collectively reached a milestone 10,000 hours of grid connected operations. The machines, which are undergoing a progressive test programme at the Billia Croo wave test site, hit the 10,000th hour on Tuesday […]

  • Top news, August 13 – 19, 2018

    19 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from August 13 – 19, 2018.

  • US DoE awards $7.3 mln for tidal and wave development

    7 August 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The US Department of Energy (DoE) has selected four entities to receive $7.4 mln to develop components that would help advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies. According to the Energy Department, the projects will address technical challenges in advanced controls, crosscutting power take-off (PTO), and innovative structures, for the wave and tidal energy sectors. Through this […]

  • Gallery: UK Marine Energy Conference wrap-up

    11 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    The first UK Marine Energy Conference brought the leaders of the UK marine energy to Glasgow on July 5, 2016, acting as a forum for industry leaders to discuss the reasons and ways in which to accelerate the progress of marine energy sector.

  • UK Wave and Tidal require fresh funding approach

    25 February 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Report made by Marine Energy Programme Board calls for new Government’s approach when it comes to the allocation of funds to the wave and tidal energy sector. The report ‘Capitalising on Capability’ urges UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments and Northern Ireland to unify and provide a joint suitably developed strategy for commercializaton of wave and […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes Committee’s Report

    21 February 2012
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    RenewableUK, the renewable energy trade association, has welcomed a new report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee which calls for an increase in the deployment of wave and tidal power. The Committee Chairman Tim Yeo MP said “Britannia really could rule the waves when it comes to marine renewable energy”. The Committee calls […]

  • Scottish, NI Ministers Commit to Wave and Tidal Development

    27 February 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    At the biggest gathering of its kind in the world, RenewableUK’s wave and tidal energy conference, Ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have re-affirmed their commitment to developing the UK’s massive marine energy resources to their full potential – and there’s been a major announcement on new funding. The Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing told […]

  • Analysis: Maritime insetting needs stronger fuel criteria to spur decarbonization

    18 July 2025
    Market Outlooks, Transition

    Voluntary insetting schemes in the maritime industry could play a pivotal role in facilitating shipping’s decarbonization during the critical pre-regulatory period, so long as they incorporate ‘robust safeguards‘ that lead to the uptake of long-term fuel options, a new analysis by UCL Energy Institute and UMAS suggests. According to the organizations’ latest study, titled “Role […]

  • UK: SAS, E.ON Solve Rampion’s Impact on Local Surfing Waves

    10 December 2012

    Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has announced that after its crucial intervention with E.ON, the Rampion offshore wind farm developers, potentially catastrophic damage to local surfing waves has now been averted. E.ON initially identified a potential reduction in wave height of up to 22% for surfing beaches in and around Brighton as a result of the […]

  • META starts collecting metocean data at one of its tidal test sites

    18 September 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    META, Wales’s national marine energy test facility, has recently deployed one of its Sofar Spotter wave buoys at Criterion Jetty tidal test site in Pembroke Dock.

  • UK: Ecotricity Introduces Wave Power Device ‘Searaser’

    23 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Green energy company Ecotricity is adding the power of the Sea to that of the Wind and the Sun – to make its Green Electricity. Ecotricity is developing a radical Wave power device called Searaser – which it believes can address two of the biggest barriers to the deployment of renewable energy on the scale […]

  • BP kicks off US Gulf extension project early, reinforcing oil & gas focus

    4 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The U.K.-headquartered energy giant BP has started up the extension project bringing more oil to its platform in the U.S. Gulf of America.

  • MaRINET2 project officially launched in Ireland

    2 February 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The second Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network (MaRINET2) program, set up to accelerate the development of offshore renewable energy technologies, has been launched today in Dublin, Ireland.

  • Equinor signs deals with startups from Energy Accelerator event

    13 May 2021
    Automation, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, IT & Software, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Equinor’s corporate venture arm Equinor Ventures has signed deals with and gave prizes to participants of the Equinor and Techstars Energy Accelerator.

  • add energy Buys Oracle Risk Consultants (Australia)

    6 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    add energy has completed the acquisition of Oracle Risk Consultants (ORC). Oracle is a leading technical safety & risk consultancy company based in Perth, Australia, servicing the offshore oil and gas and onshore hazardous facility industries. Oracle is focused on the highly active Australian market, and on projects in the surrounding APAC countries. Thus, the […]

  • Pelamis P2 Wave Machines Reach 10,000 Hours of Grid-Connected Operation

    5 June 2014
    Storage, Technology

    Two Pelamis P2 machines, currently deployed at the wave test site of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, have this week collectively reached a milestone 10,000 hours of grid connected operations. The machines, which are undergoing a progressive test programme at the Billia Croo wave test site, hit the 10,000th hour on Tuesday […]

  • Final call for PORTOS MRE device testing

    17 April 2020
    Research & Development

    Interreg Atlantic Area offers users free-of-charge access to the research and testing facilities of the PORTOS project. 1st call for PORTOS testing new technologies for renewable energy conversion within ports ends 24 April. This call is open to offshore energy technology developers, including offshore wind, wave and tidal energy at system and component level. PORTOS […]

  • EMEC Expands Its Marine Renewables Footprint in Scotland

    8 July 2014
    Authorities & Government

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in collaboration with local partners, has been awarded rights to areas of seabed in Harris, Islay and Orkney by The Crown Estate. The Crown Estate has awarded EMEC the rights to manage two seabed zones: one for the development of tidal stream, and the other for wave. EMEC, the […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes UK’s First Marine Energy Park

    25 January 2012

    RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave & tidal industry, has welcomed the announcement by Climate Change Minister Greg Barker of the UK’s first Marine Energy Park (MEP). Covering an area stretching from Bristol to Cornwall as far as the Isles of Scilly, the MEP will be a partnership between local and national Government, […]

  • Major Global Energy Event to Be Held in Orkney, UK

    26 September 2013

    A major international ocean energy conference is set to take place in Orkney next month, with wave and tidal test experts from around the world travelling to the islands to see first hand the pioneering work carried out by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). The two-day Global Ocean Energy symposium will also give test […]