Kraken Robotics Systems has appointed Dr. Jeremy Dillon as the company’s chief scientist. As an original member of Kraken’s Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) team, Dillon developed the signal processing algorithms for the AquaPix SAS imaging and bathymetry software. He also invented Kraken’s AquaTrak C
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from April 23 – 29, 2018.
Seabased, a Swedish wave energy company, has formed partnership with Infocom Connect to provide renewable energy for commercial projects in Sri Lanka.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a tender for the development of 150MW grid-connected floating solar PV power projects in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
Edinburgh-based renewable energy company Atlantis Resources and Nagasaki University have signed a collaboration agreement for a joint study on ocean renewables using tidal stream.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has contracted Orkney-based Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal energy test site. The operation will feed into a collaborative FORESEA-funded project called Forensic Decommissioning for Tidal Energy Converters (FoDTEC)
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has hired Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from the Fall of Warness tidal energy test site as part of an EU-backed collaborative decommissioning project.
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has published an environmental report for the first quarter of 2018 providing a summary of monitoring and data analysis collected in the Bay of Fundy.
Houston Mechatronics has unveiled its new subsea robot – Aquanaut. The Aquanaut is a multipurpose subsea robot which employs a patented shape-shifting transformation from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The vehicle enables both the collection of data over
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre is backing four subsea ‘plug and play’ projects to help unlock the 3.4 billion barrels of oil and gas in marginal fields, or ‘small pools’ on the UK Continental Shelf. Plug and play is a concept from the computing and space industries, where equipment is designed to b
The Marmok-A5 device, deployed for testing off the coast of northern Spain, will be retrieved for upgrades this summer as part of the EU-funded wave energy cost-cutting project.
US-based developer, suitably named Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE), has announced plans to acquire two companies whose goals and objectives mirror its own in order to further grow its business and projects.
The Maersk Supply Service multi-purpose vessel, Maersk Launcher, has left San Diego port for its first deep sea mineral offshore study. The departure marks a milestone for Maersk Supply Service’s work with deep sea metal company, DeepGreen. MSS began working with DeepGreen in 2017, to bring marine k
Official UK government statistics have shown that the public support for offshore wind is at its highest recorded level since the tracker began in 2012, reaching 83%.
