
The European project IMPACT has created an “innovative approach” for testing wave energy converter (WEC) reliability, performance, and destructivity with the dual hardware-in-the-loop (Dual HIL) platform which tests different parts of the WEC simultaneously.

Fugro has secured a contract to conduct site characterization for an offshore wind farm in Japan, which will be developed by a consortium including RWE, Mitsui, and Osaka Gas. The fieldwork started in May 2024 and is being performed from Fugro’s self-elevating platform (SEP), the Amberjack, and two