French start-up Guinard Energies is preparing to redeploy its P154 tidal turbine in southern Brittany in France, which will be coupled with a photovoltaic installation to provide power for an electric barge servicing an oyster farm.
UK energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has visited the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney to see the advancements taking place in ocean energy and discuss the UK’s potential to develop a new world-leading renewable energy industry.
Welsh marine energy company Marine Power Systems (MPS) has completed its crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, raising over £4 million to further advance its offshore renewable energy technology.
Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has constructed the world’s largest wave energy test rig following an intense two-year project.
The researchers from the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science have been conducting various tests on scale tidal turbines with the support of equipment supplied by Applied Measurements.
Spanish company Ditrel Industrial has provided its novel marine connector Konekta2 to link a dynamic cable to the Blue Growth Farm project’s multi-purpose floating platform installed offshore Italy.
Dutch wave energy company Slow Mill Sustainable Power has taken its purpose-built wave energy research vessel on a maiden voyage offshore the Netherlands.
Although we are in the midst of the summer holidays and mails are returned with out-of-office messages, some moves were made on the offshore energy chess board. Moves that show that the strategy of the game is changing towards a more sustainable future. In this weekly update recent developments from
Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has joined an elite panel of marine energy experts in Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, to discuss the region’s ambitious plan to become an epicentre for offshore renewables.
A multi-sensor platform developed by DP Energy to track environmental effects of in-stream tidal turbines has been deployed in the Minas Passage in Canada’s Bay of Fundy.
Independent energy expert and assurance provider DNV has acted as the technical advisor during the development phase of Indonesia’s first-ever floating solar project at Cirata Reservoir in West Java.
Tidal energy company Nova Innovation has been awarded £2 million from the Scottish Government to advance tidal turbine manufacturing to a global level.
The UK’s hydraulic subsea tools specialist Webtool has launched a new heavy-duty cutter, said to be designed to cut cable, umbilicals and risers in severe working conditions. The Webtool HCV220 can be deployed subsea mounted on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and as a deck-mounted cutter for plann
Irish renewable energy developer DP Energy has teamed up with Japanese shipping major Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line) and power utility company Chubu Electric Power to develop the Uisce Tapa tidal energy project in Nova Scotia, Canada.
