A six-fold increase in renewable energy deployment is required to limit global temperature rise to two degrees and avoid escalating stranded assets, according to the latest edition of International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) report Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050.
Vattenfall has procured OceanWise’s Raster Charts XL (eXcluding Land) as a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for Northern Europe.
The Scottish government has called-in Inch Cape Offshore Limited’s application for planning permission in principle for onshore components of the wind farm development.
BIRD Energy program is offering a $1 million grant per one joint US-Israel innovative project from all areas of renewable energy – including tidal, wave, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), solar and storage.
Massachusetts-based offshore wind developer Bay State Wind plans to provide more than USD 2 million in grants for research and programs to protect New England’s fisheries and whale populations.
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) is looking for a Science Director to oversee all components of its environmental monitoring program.
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Fraunhofer IWES, among others, to conduct the preliminary assessment of soil conditions in the first bidding round for new offshore wind farm zones in the North and Baltic Sea. Fraunhofer IWES said it will conduct multichannel se
New data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has shown the renewable energy sector’s generation capacity increased by 167GW to reach the total of 2,179GW worldwide in 2017.
Ørsted has signed a contract with Northumbrian Water under which the UK water company will power all of its 1,858 sites using renewable energy for the next four years.
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a project that will test the prototype technology which harnesses the energy from surf waves along the shoreline to produce power.
Glasgow-based tidal energy developer Nautricity has retrieved its tidal turbine from the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to conduct system assessment.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high-level assessment of all waters offshore the US Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.
Irish start-up DesignPro Renewables has revealed plans to deploy its 60kW hydrokinetic device for testing in the third quarter of 2018 as it looks for suitable river test site to facilitate the endeavor.
The EU-funded OPERA project will disseminate the results of the initiative which aims to halve the cost of wave energy during the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) 2018.
