CorPower Ocean recently opened its Portuguese base to the public and school students to share its pioneering work in wave energy, and vision to support the future green energy transition.
The WAVEGEM hybrid autonomous platform, which generates clean power by exploiting both solar and wave energy, has been retrieved ashore after two years of tests at the SEM-REV site offshore France.
Dutch offshore floating solar specialist Oceans of Energy has announced the upscaling of the world’s first offshore solar farm system for 20 times to 1MW in capacity.
Minesto’s largest owner, BGA Invest, has sold 4.8% of shares in the tidal energy company to the European financial fund.
Canadian hydrokinetic power technology developer Instream Energy Systems has appointed Dave Dennis as its president and CEO.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), a state-owned enterprise, has put the 45MW hydro-floating solar hybrid – deemed as the world’s largest – into commercial operation at Sirindhorn Dam.
U.S.-based company Oscilla Power has made progress with final assembly operation of its Triton-C wave energy device that will soon be deployed offshore Hawaii.
Scottish tidal energy companies Nova Innovation and SIMEC Atlantis Energy have entered into collaboration agreement with the goal of delivering more UK-built tidal turbines in the water, turbo charging the tidal industry.
Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has reached the finals of the $1 Million Ocean Innovation Prize organized by the Blue Climate Initiative (BCI).
Dutch tidal energy company Tocardo has sent off three of its T-1 tidal turbines towards Pembroke Dock where they will be installed on QED Naval’s Subhub community-scale platform.
Inyanga Maritime is developing a new dynamically-positioned (DP2) multi-purpose vessel (MPV) Inyanga Entsha that will be used to install HydroWing technology combined with Tocardo’s tidal turbines.
Several European companies have collaborated to set up the measurement system and data analytics platform on SolarDuck’s offshore floating solar unit in the Netherlands.
During the COP26 conference, nations are expected to speak out their ambition towards mitigating climate change. These pledges will have an effect on the offshore energy and maritime industry.
Five Portuguese institutions – CEiiA, +ATLANTIC CoLAB, Fórum Oceano, INESC TEC, and WavEC – have have come together under the name of OceanACT to promote the testing of innovative ocean technologies in Portugal.
