
Clime Capital, a Singapore-based investment management company in charge of SEACEF funding, has invested in the development of a floating solar and storage project in Dong Nai Province in Vietnam.

Deftiq and MET-support have developed a number of free offshore renewable energy e-learning courses as part of the Energising Coastal Regions with Offshore Renewable Energy (ENCORE) project.

Albania’s first floating solar plant, developed by Statkraft and Ocean Sun, has been severely damaged by an undisclosed incident, prompting the developers to start retrieving the floating unit ashore.

Marine renewables engineering consultancy Innosea has expanded its footprint with a new office in Marseille that will support the company’s existing portfolio of offshore wind and floating solar projects in the south-east region of France.

Portuguese electric utility EDP has secured the final license for the installation of a floating solar farm with 12,000 panels in Alqueva Reservoir.

Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy generator, in cooperation with Norwegian supplier Ocean Sun has started commercial operations at the first unit of its floating solar project in Albania.

German renewable energy company BayWa r.e. has informed that the initial studies carried out on a floating solar farm in Zwolle in the Netherlands showed no adverse effects to the surrounding environment.

Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Glint Solar have developed a technology that automatically estimates wave conditions and wind directions for floating solar installations.

The BOOST project consortium has developed a purpose-built design for offshore floating solar demonstrator that will be tested at Sintef Ocean’s basin laboratory in the following months.

Norwegian centre for research and innovation Sintef Ocean has performed tests on a scaled floating solar model on behalf of Moss Maritime and Equinor.

French energy giant EDF has hired a German-based company BELECTRIC to build 19.3MWp floating solar power plant in Israel.

Norwegian floating solar developer Ocean Sun has recorded a slight drop in revenues for the first quarter of 2021, when compared to the same period a year earlier.

Norwegian floating solar company Ocean Sun has together with project partner Statkraft completed the first phase of its 2MWp floating solar scheme on the Banja reservoir in Albania.

Norwegian companies Ocean Sun and Marine Water Production (MWP) have joined forces to produce fresh water through desalination using offshore floating solar technology.