This Invitation to Tender is made for a consultancy project that will provide the service of a Secretariat for the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) Ocean Energy, which covers both wave and tidal energy. ORJIP Ocean Energy is a UK-wide programme, jointly funded by the Crown Estate
Jointly funded by The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and Welsh Government, the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) is inviting tenders for consultancy services. Namely, The Crown Estate, on behalf of the funding partners, is running a procurement process to appoint a secretariat for
Vattenfall and Pelamis Wave Power are to appoint a liquidator to close Aegir Wave Power Ltd, a company that was supposed to develop Shetland wave farm. Aegir Wave Power is a joint venture launched by Pelamis Wave Power and Vattenfall to develop a 10 MW wave farm off Shetland. Vattenfall said that th
KIC InnoEnergy, the European company for innovation, education and business creation in sustainable energy, has announced the launch of a new call for proposals to develop innovative products and services, as part of their ambitious support programme dedicated to boosting sustainable innovations in
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 02 – February 08). Shell’s announcement on awarding the Brent field decommissioning contract to the Allseas’ Pieter Schelte attracted comments and reactions from maritime workers union. Accor
Alstom has developed Oceade 18 – 1.4 MW, a new tidal turbine, with improved design based on the Alstom’s experience with 1 MW tidal stream turbine. The Oceade tidal stream turbine has the capacity of 1.4 MW with a rotor diameter of 18 m. It has three variable pitching blades, and is equipped with pl
Due to demand, Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network (MARINET) has announced the opening of an additional sixth call offering free-of-charge use of European leading test facilities for marine renewable energy R&D. This is a unique opportunity for SME’s, companies, entrepreneurs, inventors, engine
The RV Cefas Endeavour has started an 18 day charter to the Government of the Netherlands organisations Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) and the Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), with local mobilisation in Scheveningen (Netherlands). The 74 metre multi-disciplinary research vessel wi
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) yesterday begun onshore verification testing of a large-scale (MWT167H/7.0) digital hydraulically driven offshore wind turbine at the Hunterston Test Centre in the United Kingdom. The wind turbine was developed with support from Japan’s New Energy and Industri
The AR1500 is the latest tidal power turbine system under development at Atlantis. The AR1500 will have a rated capacity of 1.5 MW at flows of 3.0 m/s. Lockheed Martin Corporation has completed the detailed design of this turbine during 2014. The design is adjusted to withstand the harsh environment
In December 2014 the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Miljøstyrelsen) published a policy document, entitled “The Danish Solution: A BluePrint for Clean Soil”. The document provides a policy framework for identifying and prioritizing soil-contamination sites in Denmark and developing green-tec
A new way to process fibre optic signals has been demonstrated by UCL researchers, which could double the distance at which data travels error-free through transatlantic sub-marine cables. According to UCL, the new method has the potential to reduce the costs of long-distance optical fibre communica
Companies, entrepreneurs and groups working in the area of marine renewable energy, based in the EU or in FP7-associated States are eligible to participate in the latest MARINET’s call offering free access to Europe’s leading test facilities. As a first step, the user, or the group leader must conta
Ceona has announced the successful installation of 570te multiple pipelay VLS and twin 400te cranes onto the Ceona Amazon vessel. One month after the vessel’s arrival at Huisman yard in the Netherlands, the Ceona Amazon has been equipped with multi-lay VLS with a top tension of 570te, and with two 4
