Emera has withdrawn from the joint venture Cape Sharp Tidal it formed with now defunct OpenHydro stating the project no longer represents the value for the Canadian energy business.
Infinity has been awarded a substantial contract for the Seagull development, a subsea tie-back to a third-party platform. The project will see Infinity support the pre-FEED & FEED providing production assurance, pipeline integrity engineering and subsea technical assurance on behalf of Apache. The
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has submitted to the energy regulator, Ofgem, a Strategic Wider Works (SWW) ‘Final Needs Case’ for a subsea cable transmission link from Western Isles to the Scottish mainland. The network reinforcement is required to enable renewable generation seek
BELLA (Building Europe Link to Latin America) consortium, whose leading investor is the European Commission, has signed a contract agreement with EllaLink, a private consortium, to launch the deployment of an underwater fibre optic cable connecting Europe and Latin America. The cable should provide
American wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has entered into $10 million common stock purchase agreement with institutional investor Aspire Capital Fund.
Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has completed the initial commissioning sea trials of its Deep Green tidal device off the coast of Holyhead, North West Wales.
The facility of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) – the National Wind Technology Center – has opened a post-doctoral research opportunity that will help in the characterization of the United States’ marine energy resource.
Australian based Protean Energy has engaged the services of the energy industry expert Scott Davis who will advise the company on the development and commercialization of its battery program.
Belgian start-up Laminaria has opened two vacancies for positions that will help the company undertake project to test and demonstrate a commercial scale wave energy device off Orkney in Scotland.
TCarta Marine, a provider of marine geospatial products, has been awarded a research and development grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance and automate multiple techniques for deriving seafloor depth measurements from optical satellite imagery. The ‘Project Trident’ research seek
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.
