The 223kWp floating solar demonstrator, developed by the Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun, has celebrated two years in operation during which it successfully weathered through two typhoon seasons without any damage.
The Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has launched the M4 demonstrator project offshore Western Australia to showcase the region’s potential for using wave energy to power the local aquaculture industry.
Eco Wave Power has through its Portuguese subsidiary secured an installation and grid connection permit for a 1MW wave energy pilot project planned for the Barra do Douro breakwater in Porto.
Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun has conducted an analysis into root cause of the failure of its floating solar unit that was installed in Albania, which pointed towards the weather conditions as the main reason for the incident.
Swedish marine energy company Minesto has posted a slight decrease in net loss for the first half of 2021, compared to the same period a year earlier.
The 2022 Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize competitors will test their wave energy-harvesting ocean observing prototypes in the SPLASH Contest next autumn on the Olympic Peninsula, offshore Washington.
A research team led by RMIT University has developed a wave energy converter said to be twice as efficient at harvesting power as any similar technologies developed to date.
Eco Wave Power has entered into collaboration agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to examine the feasibility of installing its wave energy technology in the Israeli Navy’s bases.
Swedish wave energy company Novige has concluded the extensive tests on its scaled NoviOcean wave energy prototype in France, with the support of the MaRINET2 project.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant, is set to perform a preliminary conceptual design study to further develop its novel wave energy converter aimed at powering autonomous ocean monitoring systems.
Sustainable Marine has completed ‘rigorous tests’ on its latest generation tidal turbine drivetrain at the world-renowned Center for Wind Power Drives at RWTH Aachen University, proving the technology is robust enough to take on the Bay of Fundy tides.
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) has secured a $20 million investment commitment, with an additional $5 million second closing this fall, from a consortium led by Canadian Shield Capital in alliance with Hatch.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking to appoint a contractor to remove OpenHydro’s test tidal energy turbine installed offshore Orkney.
The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center has provided $6 million to the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UH) to provide critical research and logistical support to the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS), located offshore Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
