The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has provided a series of metocean data sets to be used in a new Scottish open innovation competition aiming to stimulate creative thinking and data science to design new data products for the benefit of the marine environment, communities and economy. Organis
The Port of Antwerp has introduced a fully autonomous sounding boat – a prototype that is currently being developed to supplement the other operational sounding boat. Both of these carry out measurements of the water depth everywhere in the port so as to guarantee safe passage for shipping. The clou
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from August 6 – 12, 2018.
The second version of the Penguin wave energy converter – developed by Finnish company Wello – is said to have reached 110% increase in power production as it gears up to join its ‘younger sibling’ deployed off Scotland.
The upgrade works on the H24 wave energy converter have been completed, and the device – owned by Enel Green Power – stands ready to start producing power once again using the waters of the Ligurian Sea.
Fugro has introduced a new bathymetric lidar system that reportedly delivers industry-leading depth penetration and point densities for nearshore and coastal mapping. Known as RAMMS (Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System), the promises to deliver an efficient and cost-effective solution, dramatica
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is starting data acquisition expedition for mineral deposits in the deeper areas of the continental shelf in western parts of the Norwegian Sea. The NPD has engaged Swire Seabed, who partners with Ocean Floor Geophysics, to carry out mapping of potential sul
Cavitas Energy, enhanced oil recovery specialist, has added bespoke reservoir modelling to its current portfolio of services. Working in partnership with Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD), the developers of subsurface analysis technology tNavigator, Cavitas said it will spearhead small and large scale reserv
American company Resolute Marine Energy has made it to the shortlist of 25 sustainability start-ups running for the prize of €500,000 as part of the annual competition organized by the Dutch Postcode Lottery.
The build phase of the EU-backed Tidal Turbine Power Take-off Accelerator (TiPA) project has been completed, with the integral bit of the scheme – power take off (PTO) subsystem – now under tests at RWTH Aachen University.
Cefas and Liquid Robotics have recently deployed, tested and recovered a remotely-piloted Wave Glider, which was adapted to allow scientists to collect broadband fisheries acoustics data. As part of a multi-vehicle mission under the UK NERC/Defra funded AlterEco project, the Wave Glider called Lyra
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has provided a series of metocean data sets to be used in a new Scottish open innovation competition for the marine environment’s and wider benefits.
The second iteration of the European Commission-funded European Technology and Innovation Platform for Ocean Energy (ETIP Ocean 2) is looking to create a team that will guide the initiative forward in the next three years.
United Kingdom’s technology innovation and research center Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is looking to expand its team with several new job openings.
