Marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group said it has made further progress into the growing floating solar photovoltaic market in Asia and Europe. Post the acquisition of INNOSEA in 2018, LOC has been involved in more than 300MWp of FPV projects in Asia and Europe. The company’s first project in
A team of pupils from Northgate High School in Norwich have been crowned champions of the Subsea UK 2020 STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Challenge, which saw six teams from across the UK compete to design an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to solve an environmental incident.
SEA Wave and WESE have launched an online platform, MARENDATA, to share environmental monitoring data collected within the marine energy industry. Co-funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, both SEA Wave and WESE are undertaking environmental research campaigns to better understand the p
The deep ocean research institute Nekton has chosen Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress to enable images captured by from the floor of the Indian Ocean to be transmitted to audiences worldwide. The maritime high-speed broadband service provided connectivity to relay broadcast images from Nekton’s submersible of
The NEMMO project has recently installed a set of tidal turbine blade panels made from fibreglass and a gel-coat coating for testing at the HarshLab facility. The samples, taken from the current Magallanes’ turbine blade, will be submerged for six months to determine the level of biofouling on the s
Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has partnered with ABB to bring clean energy from the oceans. CorPower has developed a prototype in the form of a buoy that takes wave power and turns it into electricity. The buoy in the water, which moves two to three meters up and down, is reinforced w
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has recently produced two new deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector. The deliverables correspond to the technical manuals of the alpha version of two modules: Energy Delivery module of the deployment design tool. This module will de
REV Ocean has signed a collaboration agreement with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Organization (IOC) of UNESCO. The aim is to usher in a decade of ocean solutions through advancing global ocean data sharing and application, providing opportunities for researchers and marine management, includi
Scottish company Ecosse IP (EIP) has unveiled its energy-transition-focused Mass of Water Turbine (MOWT), designed to generate energy from slow-moving water. The MOWT technology, patent-pending, was designed and developed for use in rivers, estuaries and subsea current & tidal environments. Accordin
HR Wallingford has reportedly developed a sophisticated fish collision model for the tidal power industry which predicts collision rates more accurately than ever before by incorporating the real swimming behaviours of different species of fish for the first time. The journal of ‘Renewable Energy’ h
The Northern Lights project partners Equinor, Shell and Total have completed the drilling of confirmation well south of the Troll field in the North Sea to determine the suitability of the reservoir for CO₂ storage. Located some 2500 metres below the seabed, this is the first well drilled in exploit
Scottish firm Ecosse IP (EIP) has announced the arrival of its latest product, Mass of Water Turbine (MOWT), designed to generate energy from slow-moving water. The MOWT technology, patent-pending, is designed for use in rivers, estuaries and subsea current & tidal environments, offering an energy s
Swedish wave power company Ocean Harvesting Technologies (OHT) has become member of Norway’s GCE Ocean Technology. Since 2017, the Swedish company has been focusing on InfinityWEC. Each individual wave power plant can produce up to 500 kW of average power and 2 GWh annually, and will be included in
Subsea UK has partnered with ocean protection organisation Big Blue Ocean Cleanup to support its project and raise awareness of the initiative across the UK’s £7.8-billion underwater engineering industry. Big Blue Ocean Cleanup is an international agency that works to prevent pollution through initi
