Irish company OceanEnergy has concluded the latest round of tank testing of its scaled OE35 wave energy device model at Lir-National Ocean Test Facility (Lir NOTF) as part of the WEDUSEA project.
The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) and the EU-SCORES project partners have recently held a two-day stakeholder engagement event on energy multi-use parks at the Marine Energy Hub in the Hague, spotlighting the benefits of combining different offshore renewable energy sources at one site.
ECOwind, a subsidiary of German renewable energy company BayWa r.e., together with Austrian energy supplier EVN, has constructed a 24.5 MWp floating solar plant in Austria.
The MeyGen tidal energy project, developed by SIMEC Atlantis Energy, has become the first tidal stream array in the world to generate 50GWh of clean electricity from tidal energy.
Even though it is an industry which is seeing major growth, European offshore wind saw no investments in an offshore wind farm in 2022 (except in a few small floating wind projects). Oil companies are also tip-toeing around new capital investments. Meanwhile, in the shipping sector, deals on new, gr
California-based wave energy technology developer Centipod has teamed up with TTI Marine Renewables, a Scottish subsidiary of Tension Technology International (TTI), on the development of its wave energy device.
EU-backed Forward Looking at the Offshore Renewables (FLORES) project has been officially launched to develop tools and activities to foster the development of skills in the offshore renewable energy sector.
Norwegian floating solar company Ocean Sun has released financial results for 2022, marking a significant increase in revenues when compared to a year before.
Spain-based water utility Miya has expanded its activities to the renewables sector with the acquisition of a stake in Xfloat, an Israeli floating solar developer.
Scottish company Flex Marine Power has been awarded significant funding from the UK government’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) to further develop and demonstrate its low-cost tidal energy turbine.
Europe’s largest renewable energy generator Statkraft, in collaboration with Norwegian supplier Ocean Sun, has installed three additional floating solar units at Banja reservoir in Albania, bringing the floating solar plant’s total capacity to 2MWp.
The representatives of the UK tidal stream industry have met with Graham Stuart, the minister of the newly launched department for energy security and net zero, to discuss the role of tidal energy in the country’s secure and cost-effective transition to net zero.
Danish company Wavepiston has opened a second round of equity crowdfunding as it aims to finance the final stages of demonstration and commercialization of its wave energy technology.
Adopting tidal power alongside other forms of renewable energy can significantly enhance energy security and go some way to enabling communities to fulfil their clean energy ambitions, a new study has shown.
