
Welsh renewable energy developer Marine Power Systems (MPS) has received massive investment support in its ongoing crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube which closes in five days.

Italian national agency for energy and new technologies ENEA has launched the first national survey on new technologies that exploit energy from tidal currents and sea waves.

German engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions and Austrian technology group ANDRITZ Hydro have agreed to cooperate on the production of green hydrogen from hydropower.

Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) is preparing to make several changes to its senior leadership team as a part of its long-term development plan.

The UK Parliament’s Welsh Affairs Committee has called for the development of a specific renewable energy strategy for Wales before the end of this year as failing to do so would put at risk the emerging economic opportunities offered by the shift to net-zero.

French LNG containment specialist GTT has appointed Virginie Aubagnac as the new chief financial officer.

Finnish wave energy company Wello has deployed its Penguin wave energy device off the coast of Bilbao in the Basque Country.

Orbital Marine Power’s O2, deemed the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, has started grid-connected power generation offshore Orkney in Scotland. The turbine is also set to provide power for green hydrogen generation to facilitate decarbonisation of wider energy requirements.

French offshore cabling specialist Nexans has been awarded a contract by Equinor to supply power export cable for its floating solar pilot offshore Frøya in Norway.

The European Commission has opened a call for expressions of interest for a new working group on offshore renewable energies that would contribute to reaching EU’s ambition of at least 300GW of offshore wind and 40GW of ocean energies by 2050.

Subsea services company Ashtead Technology has appointed Graham Clark to the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to bolster its growth.

RenewableUK’s new chief executive Dan McGrail has urged the UK Ministers to demonstrate greater ambition in the next round of auctions for contracts to generate clean electricity.

Boosting offshore renewables will accelerate the energy transition and allow G20 countries to build a resilient and sustainable energy system, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. The report has also outlined specific courses of action to make this happen.

The Mutriku wave power plant, located in the Basque Country in northern Spain, has reached a ten-year milestone of uninterrupted clean power generation, becoming the longest operating commercial plant of its kind in the world.