Certification group Bureau Veritas has delivered the world’s first Approval in Principle (AiP) for an offshore floating solar solution to Dutch company SolarDuck, marking the beginning of a new era for this form of renewable energy.
The Danish Energy Agency has opened a technology-neutral tender for 2021, where solar cell systems, wind turbines, wave energy plants and hydropower plants can all compete for support.
California-based wave energy company CalWave Power Technologies will launch an open-water wave energy pilot off the pier of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in mid-September.
The first tidal turbine has been installed for trials at the Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS), located in Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts.
Australian company Wave Swell Energy has started exporting clean power from its UniWave200 wave energy device to electrical grid on King Island, offshore Tasmania.
The 223kWp floating solar demonstrator, developed by the Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun, has celebrated two years in operation during which it successfully weathered through two typhoon seasons without any damage.
The Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has launched the M4 demonstrator project offshore Western Australia to showcase the region’s potential for using wave energy to power the local aquaculture industry.
Eco Wave Power has through its Portuguese subsidiary secured an installation and grid connection permit for a 1MW wave energy pilot project planned for the Barra do Douro breakwater in Porto.
Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun has conducted an analysis into root cause of the failure of its floating solar unit that was installed in Albania, which pointed towards the weather conditions as the main reason for the incident.
The 2022 Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize competitors will test their wave energy-harvesting ocean observing prototypes in the SPLASH Contest next autumn on the Olympic Peninsula, offshore Washington.
INPEX Corporation, Japan’s largest exploration and production company, has signed a sales and purchase agreement with the United Arab Emirates-based oil company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) concerning the application of clean ammonia for a demonstration supply chain linking the UAE and Jap
A research team led by RMIT University has developed a wave energy converter said to be twice as efficient at harvesting power as any similar technologies developed to date.
Odfjell Oceanwind has secured a pre-project grant from Enova, Norway’s fund for climate and energy technologies, to mature its first commercial contracts for Mobile Offshore Wind Units (MOWUs) and WindGrid for the electrification of oil and gas installations. The grant is awarded under Enova’s full-
Eco Wave Power has entered into collaboration agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to examine the feasibility of installing its wave energy technology in the Israeli Navy’s bases.
