The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and Wave Hub have signed an agreement with Marine Energy Wales to provide strategic advice for the development of marine energy test center in Pembrokeshire.
Irish company DesignPro Renewables has unveiled its new and improved turbine design for its 25kW hydrokinetic device that will deployed at SEENEOH test site this September.
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Equinor a consent to use a facility to supply power from onshore to the Johan Sverdrup field. Electrical power will be obtained from the onshore grid and converted to DC at a transformer station at Haugsneset close to the Kårstø facility in Rogaland.
Baltic Connector Oy has informed that excavation work for the Balticconnector project, a gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, has been completed in inner archipelago on Monday in Inkoo, and the blasting work is planned to start at the end of the week. The blasting work will be conducted in the
The UK government has adopted a new framework for managing marine activities around the south coast of England, between Kent and Devon – an area which includes PTEC and Portland Bill tidal plans.
EDF Energies Nouvelles (EN) has completed the layout of the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for its Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, and has hired a local architectural firm to design the O&M building to be built in La Turballe, with a focus on landscape and environment.
EDF Energies Nouvelles (EN) has completed the layout of the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for its Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, and has hired a local architectural firm to design the O&M building to be built in La Turballe, with a focus on landscape and environment.
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has started the third inter array cable installation campaign for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) off the Caithness coast. The cable laying vessel Seaway Aimery supported by the cable support vessel Siem Barracuda and cable trenching vessel Grand Canyon will unde
The Danish Energy Board of Appeal has ruled that Norwegian and Danish TSOs Statnett and Energinet may continue to reserve capacity for exchange of reserves on an interconnector between the countries until the end of 2019. “This is good news and in line with the prerequisites for building the interco
A consortium comprising of the R&D UK Centre of EDF Energy, UTEC, an Acteon company, and Partrac Ltd completed an offshore trial designed to assess the performance of a commercial Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for mapping seabed bathymetry.
The government of Barbados has opened a tender for consulting services for a wide range of technical studies related to the build-out of large-scale ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and offshore wind projects.
ASV Global (ASV), in partnership with Sonardyne, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and SeeByte, have successfully delivered a long endurance, multi-vehicle, autonomous survey solution. A recent two-week trial in Scotland’s Loch Ness was the culmination of the three-year ‘Autonomous Surface and
Curtiss-Wright has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with Saipem for barrier fluid-less subsea pump technology for water treatment and injection applications. The development of the barrier fluid-less pump is a derivative technology application of Curtiss-Wright’s commercial nuclear expertis
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from July 9 – 15, 2018.
