An innovative floating wind turbine utilising Hydro Group connectivity is ready for commercial applications, following site tests which saw it generate 2.2GWh of electricity and face wave heights of up to 6.2 meters during the first half of 2019. The Floatgen Vestas V80 turbine, located in the SEM-R
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The European Commission has decided to reinvest unspent funds from the NER300 programme to support wave energy technology WaveRoller under InnovFin Energy Demo Projects (EDP). Reinvesting the unspent funds from the first NER300 call enables timely support to promising projects before the launch of t
ION Geophysical and iSEISMIC, an ocean bottom seismic (OBS) acquisition specialist, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on seabed acquisition technologies. iSEISMIC plans to utilize the full suite of ION’s 4Sea ocean bottom acquisition and imaging technology to deliver a step-ch
Orbital Marine Power has selected FAUN Trackway to manufacture the anchors for its new O2 tidal stream turbine at FAUN Trackway’s facilities in Llangefni, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. FAUN Trackway has been engaged to manufacture four steel anchor structures, along with bespoke mooring connectors,
Wave Venture, a specialist wave energy consultancy and software provider, is developing an innovative Techno Economic analysis product called “Wave Venture TE”. This software is a hybrid desktop-cloud integrated engineering and financial analysis package. Wave Venture have been developing components
A new €4.2-million cross-border project aiming to boost the marine energy industry in Wales and Ireland has been announced by Counsel General and Brexit Minister, Jeremy Miles. Funded by the EU’s Ireland-Wales co-operation programme, the Selkie project will bring together researchers and businesses
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The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub has awarded almost £1 million to UK universities to support research projects investigating all aspects of offshore renewable energy (ORE). The Hub’s Flexible Fund has been established to enable UK researchers to respond to a number of key ORE engineering c
Bombora Wave Power has appointed Cape Engineering Services (Altrad) as a contractor for the fabrication of the Cell Module Structure for the mWave Wave Energy Converter Demonstration. The cell module structure is a key structural element of the cell module with the primary function of retaining an a
Equinor and partners Lundin and Spirit Energy have made a small oil discovery in production licence 167 at the Utsira High in the North Sea. The Lille Prinsen Outer Wedge well is located about 1 kilometer west of Lille Prinsen Main, an oil discovery made in the summer of 2018. Lille Prinsen Outer We
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is seeking concepts for innovative Quick Connection Systems suitable for use with a variety of wave energy converters. Quick Connection Systems are the next subcomponent to be developed by WES in its multi-million pound wave energy technology programme. The ideal technolog
Wello’s Penguin wave energy converter – WEC2 has arrived in Orkney, Scotland where it awaits deployment. The WEC2 arrived from Tallinn shipyard to Orkney, where it will be installed by the coast. The Penguin WEC2 is Wello’s first full-scale commercially ready wave energy converter. Wello has previou
Managing director of the Irish tidal energy developer GKinetic, Vincent Mc Cormack, was welcomed back to the IFREMER testing facility in France ahead of scheduled trials in September this year. The testing in the IFREMER tank has been funded through the MaRINET2 programme. The results of this testin