
CorPower Ocean and OPS Composite Solutions have received close to €500,000 from EEA Grants for a collaborative project looking to boost the performance and slash costs for wave energy technology.

The AR500 tidal energy generation system, designed and built by Simec Atlantis Energy, has been installed in the Naru Strait, off Japan’s Goto Island chain.

Marine Energy Test Area (META), Wales’ national marine test centre, has obtained the marine license for the second phase of the project from Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has secured support from the EU-funded MaRINET2 project to test its hybrid floating wind and wave platform at IHCantabria facilities in Spain.

In collaboration with strong international players, the Norwegian wave energy developer Waveco has advanced the development of the full-scale Subwave wave energy prototype which could be ready for deployment by the end of the year.

Edinburgh-based start-up Mocean Energy has made great progress on the construction of its Blue X wave energy device which is nearing completion ahead of spring deployment in Orkney waters.

German marine energy start-up SINN Power has deployed its Ocean Hybrid Platform (OHP) – designed to produce renewable energy by combining wind, wave and PV – in a demonstration project offshore Greece.

The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) is looking to grow its team with the addition of a new Business & Innovation Advisor.

Irish hydrokinetic turbine developer GKinetic Energy has been granted patent protection in the United States for the ‘bluff body’ accelerator – part of the company’s hydrokinetic technology concept.

The Marine Energy Test Area (META) has strengthened its team with the appointment of Saul Young as a new operations manager.

Ocean Sun and Fred. Olsen Renewables, together with project partners, have been awarded Horizon 2020 funding to test a full-scale floating solar power unit in the Atlantic Ocean.

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking to contract a marine energy technology developer to act as an external advisor to the Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA).

The Wave and Energy Project (WEP+), a multinational research project into biofouling on offshore renewable energy platforms, has made progress on developing anti-fouling strategies set to boost the performance of marine energy technologies.

The University of Strathclyde, in conjunction with National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) and Subsea UK, have announced a new foundation-level course for the offshore renewable energy sector. Specifically, the course provides a balance of applied engineering and business, targeting technical and