European Union’s Horizon 2020 program has awarded €5 million to VALID project for the development of a Hybrid Testing Platform that will accelerate the testing of marine energy devices in Europe’s race towards carbon neutrality.
Clean energy technology start-up Exowave has secured funding from the Danish government to advance the project that combines wave energy extraction with desalination and hydrogen production.
UK-based marine energy company HydroWing is looking to expand its team with the addition of new electrical design engineer that will work on the development of the company’s tidal energy device.
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s wave and tidal sector specialist, Simon Cheeseman, has been awarded the Society for Underwater Technology’s (SUT) Lennard-Senior prize for 2020 in recognition of his outstanding individual achievement in the field of marine renewable energy.
The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) and the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) have held a technology qualification workshop with Resolute Marine as part of the Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) project.
WESE project has completed an environmental monitoring campaign for the WaveRoller wave energy device deployed off the coast of Portugal.
AqualisBraemar has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in LOC Group with the purchase price consideration of USD 20.2 million (around EUR 16.5 million) cash consideration plus two million conditional warrants in AqualisBraemar. As reported in November, when the acquisition was announced, LOC Group’s
Simec Atlantis has delivered its tidal energy generation equipment to Japan ahead of deployment in the Naru Strait.
The European Union is considering tapping into more of its offshore renewable energy sources farther out in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where it plans to study not only the technical potential of offshore wind and wave and tidal energy generation, but also the potential for building a meshed o
Anglesey tidal energy project, Morlais, is set to become one of the first projects to benefit from the proposed £240 million North Wales Growth Deal.
Port of Milford Haven has submitted a planning application seeking approval for works to begin at Pembroke Port to create the infrastructure needed to support the development of a world-class renewable energy and engineering hub.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has begun an independent power performance assessment for Verdant Power’s Gen5 tidal energy turbines.
Sustainable Marine Energy has joined a technology partnership, backed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, to develop a smart electrical grid solution for remote communities using ocean energy generators.
Danish wave energy developer Wavepiston has installed the first string of its device at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) test site.
