
CorPower Ocean’s first commercial scale wave energy converter – C4 – is set to undergo intensive testing to prove its performance and survivability ahead of ocean deployment.

Edinburgh-based engineering consultancy Quoceant has boosted its mechanical engineering team with two new hires.

Irish firm XOCEAN is advancing to become the first company to commercialise uncrewed surface vessels (USV) for ocean data gathering with a €1.7 million grant secured from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

Verlume, a UK-based intelligent energy management and storage technologies specialist, has received a €3 million investment from a consortium led by Par Equity.

Energy intelligence group Wood Mackenzie sees green hydrogen as a key driver for net-zero economies and decarbonising global energy systems.

Harbour Energy has revealed that its current CEO Europe has tendered his resignation, which becomes effective at the end of the month.

Eco Wave Power has completed the cabling works required to connect the wave energy project, being developed in collaboration with EDF, to Israeli power grid.

Danish wave energy company Wavepiston has started with the installation operations for its wave-powered desalination system in Canary Islands.

German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd reported an “extraordinary” strong operating result in 2021, driven by high freight rates.

The joint industry project launched in June 2021 to test biofuel blend (B30) derived from renewable feedstock to power a d’Amico Group LR1 product tanker, showed positive findings in terms of the reduction of CO2 emissions, reduced carbon intensity, and stable NOx emissions.

UK-based tidal energy developer SBS has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (Mou) with state-owned enterprise Indonesia Power for the development of tidal energy projects in Larantuka and Boleng straits.

Under the auspices of the Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) project, a French start-up HelioRec worked together with Irish techno-financial analysis provider Exceedence on the assessment of levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and key cost drivers for the company’s floating solar technology.

National Grid Electricity System Operator, the UK’s electricity system operator, has published Networks Options Assessment (NOA) for 2022 recommending more than £5 billion (around $6.7 billion) worth of grid infrastructure investments in the North of Scotland.

French shipping and logistics major CMA CGM Group has entered into a preliminary agreement to acquire a 51% stake in the Colis Privé Group, a compatriot specialist in home and relay parcel delivery.