UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has stated it would extend the delivery years for Contracts for Difference (CfD) to enable allocation rounds for renewable energy projects post 2020.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has added two new members to its marketing and engineering teams.
Innovacorp has opened a new competition called Spark West to identify and provide seed capital for start-ups in western Nova Scotia, with the preference for clean and ocean technology sectors.
Wave-tricity, a UK-based wave energy developer, is pondering options to refit and refurbish a concrete barge that would be used as a trials platform for its wave energy device.
The Coastal Communities Fund (CCF), backed by the UK government, has launched the £3.4 million funding opportunity available for coastal project proposals in Wales, including marine renewable energy projects.
AXYS Technologies, a Canadian environmental monitoring company, has selected Scotland-based GSE Rentals as its equipment lease partner.
AW-Energy, a Finnish wave energy developer, has released a video showing the new method of generating a 3D ground model of an offshore site developed by Lloyd’s Register.
International three-day course on tidal and wave energy, salinity gradient power and ocean thermal energy will be held in the Netherlands in October.
The construction of the floating platform that will be used to test in-river and ocean tidal devices at the SEENEOH test site has begun.
The works on removing the stranded Oceanlinx wave energy converter has started this week off the coast of Australia.
Marine Renewables Canada (MRC) has submitted its proposals regarding the contribution of marine renewable energy for Canada’s new Innovation Agenda.
UK-based wave energy developer, Wave-tricity, has been granted £4 million for the deployment of its wave energy device off Pembrokeshire.
Aberdeenshire-based tidal energy developer, Current2Current, has secured a £100,000 grant from the Scottish Enterprise for the development of its tidal energy technology.
Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) is looking to identify the most appropriate method for fish tagging and tracking in the Severn Estuary as part of tidal lagoon project development.
