The Horizon 2020 funded WaveBoost project has drawn to a close with a step change improvement achieved to the reliability and performance of wave energy technology. Led by CorPower Ocean, the WaveBoost consortium designed and developed a Power Take Off (PTO) system allowing wave energy converters (W
Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET) announced a new marine renewable energy webinar series. The webinars will feature experts from various fields who will share their knowledge and insights, engage in dialogue with participants, and help move the conversation along as floating offshore wind and other
Carnegie said it has achieved the first milestones of its new CETO ‘Digital Development Pathway’. Namely, the company has developed the machine-learning-based Wave Predictor capable of predicting the characteristics of waves that will reach the CETO Unit up to 30 seconds in the future. This is the f
Subsea engineering firm JFD said it will bring to market a new patient ventilator system to support global health systems in fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. JFD has responded to the UK Government’s Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System call to manufacturers, to support the provision of essenti
Ocean modelling researchers from the MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) are using wave data collected at the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site and the outputs from NUIG wave models on the site to characterise the wave resour
This session from 2018 looked at the latest technology development in offshore wind and offered a platform for the ideas of the next generation of offshore wind professionals. Watch the contributions from: Erik-Jan de Ridder (Senior Project Manager MARIN), Lionel Jossé (Sales & Business development
German wave energy developer NEMOS has started a project in the field of respiratory ventilators to support Covid-19 treatments. Within the non-profit initiative Breathing Aid, a design has been developed that can be realized at large quantities with available industrial components. This initiative
EU-funded Atlantic Action Plan (AAP) has launched the call of applications to select the 2020 Atlantic Project Awards. The Atlantic Project Awards will showcase and promote the individual winners while at the same time highlight the incorporation and scaling up of best practices at regional and nati
Eelume has received NOK 175.000 in pre-project funding this year from GCE Ocean Technology. Eelume was established in 2015 as a spin-off from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). After a decade of research on snake robots in collaboration with the research organization SINTEF,
UK-based geotechnical specialist Ternan Energy is supporting CorPower within the UMACK (Universal Mooring, Anchor & Connectivity Kit) demonstration project. Ternan is providing geotechnical and foundation design support to the project, with focus on investigating the practical deployment of screw pi
Two consortia have secured just under £1 million funding from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) to demonstrate the potential of new applications of materials to bring down the cost of wave power. Consultant engineers Arup will lead a consortium which aims to show that pre-cast reinforced concrete can be in
The Green Maritime Methanol consortium achieves a new project milestone.
Malin Renewables has recently received the steel to kick off the fabrication works for AWS Ocean Energy’s Archimedes Waveswing wave power generation device. In February this year, Malin Renewables secured a £1-million contract from AWS to supply a fifty-tonne wave energy converter. Malin will build
Irish company DesignPro Renewables said it has achieved new performance milestones with its hydrokinetic turbine as part of ongoing testing at the SEENEOH test site in Bordeaux, France. The turbine generates energy from flowing water and has been deployed at a dedicated test site on the River Garonn
