Ciel & Terre has completed the anchoring and is assembling the floating system for the Saint Savin floating solar project in Isère, France. The Saint Savin is an 11 MWp floating solar project being developed by Énerg’isère and EGREGA on a gravel pit. Currently, the team is progressing with the proj
The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Minesto with 2.8M SEK (approximately $267,000) to support the development and testing of a mooring system for ocean energy deployment. The grant co-funds a project through which Minesto will advance the performance of the next-generation tether system that moors
France-based start-up HelioRec has established a partnership with EMP ROTOMOULAGE, a company dedicated to rotational molding techniques, with the aim of spearheading the production of floating solar systems in the Bretagne region. HelioRec, who has developed a floating solar system whose compact des
Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage. The £2 million demonstrator initiative, nearing 12 months in the water, has c
A site located within Malta’s territorial waters has been identified as the potential location for the country’s first grid-connected floating solar project, Maltese Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli announced. A preliminary market consultation (PMC) has been launched to a
The construction of the £24 million substation for the Morlais tidal stream energy project has been completed and the substation has been delivered to site owner Menter Môn Morlais. Civil engineering firm Jones Bros has handed over the substation to Menter Môn Morlais in a move said to signal the su
Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has deployed its pilot floating solar project at sea in Norway, with commissioning scheduled for spring. Fred. Olsen 1848 sees the 50×50 meter, 124 kW pilot project in Risør as a testing ground for refining the components of its floating PV technology. The next s
Copenhagen-based company Glentra Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Third Pillar Solar Renewables, a U.S. developer and operator of floating solar projects. Third Pillar’s projects, which vary in size from 3 to 200 MW, are set up on unused water bodies like reservoirs, wastewater treatment
France’s Ifremer and HydroQuest have set up a joint laboratory for the development of offshore tidal turbines. Supported by the National Research Agency, the goal of the laboratory is to develop analysis tools and support for the design of tidal turbines adapted to marine constraints. Ifremer and Hy
After validating its technology in European wave basins at a small scale, French start-up Seaturns is now progressing to the next stage by starting tests on a 1:4-scale prototype at the Ste Anne du Portzic site in Brittany, France. Seaturn installed the demonstrator at the Ifremer test site in Octob
BlueNewables, a Spanish engineering consultancy supporting the marine energy sector, is moving forward with its floating solar demonstration project in Valencia with the first round of contacts with main suppliers finished. BlueNewables reported on January 18 that its 1 MW PV-bos project in Valencia
HydroWing, part of Inyaga Marine Energy Group, has developed a new barge aimed at reducing the costs of installing and maintaining its tidal stream array technology. HydroWing was the largest tidal stream project in Wales to be successful in the UK government’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD)
The industry needs to start shifting its focus from wind farms to energy farms as we have limited space which we need to make use of in an efficient way. A synergy of offshore wind and floating solar is the way to go. “If you only fill 20% of wind farm space with floating solar, […]
Minesto has carried out the Launch and Recovery System (LARS) method for the 1.2 MW, 25-ton Dragon 12 tidal energy kite in Vestmannsund, Faroe Islands. According to Minesto, the operations developed for Dragon 4, which has a capacity of 100 kW and weighs 2.5 tons, were equally effective with the meg
