An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. has officially opened the UCC Beaufort Building in Ringaskiddy, which will provide Ireland with infrastructure for renewable energy and maritime research to power the ‘blue economy’. The 4,700m squared five storey building features wave simulators, test tanks, workshops
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has officially opened the UCC Beaufort Building, a marine research and development center, in Ringaskiddy, Ireland. The 4.700 m squared five storey building features state-of-the-art wave simulators, test tanks, workshops and offices. It will house house the headquart
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, has achieved a breakthrough record of data transmission over a distance of 10,000 kilometers. The record was achieved using a real-time processing prototypes of a 300 gigabits-per-second new modulation technol
ARENA is the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, a commercially oriented agency established by the Australian Government in 2012 whose aim is to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies, and to increase the supply of renewable energy in Australia. Check out the infographic releas
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) is Canadian test center for in-stream tidal energy technology. FORCE works with developers, regulators, and researchers to study the potential for tidal turbines to operate within the Bay of Fundy environment. FORCE provides a shared observation fac
International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Wind unit issued a proposal for a new task called “Wind Energy Systems Engineering: Integrated RD&D” in May, which was approved by the IEA Wind Executive Committee. The task consists of three parts: Developing a framework for multi-disciplinary design and evaluati
Wave Energy Prize, a competition launched by the US Department of Energy (US DoE), has announced that 92 teams have officially been registered for the WEC device development competition. This design-build-test competition is encouraging the development of game-changing wave energy conversion (WEC) d
Wave energy enthusiasts from industry and academia have formed 92 teams to move toward the first milestone of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wave Energy Prize. The design-build-test competition is encouraging the development of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices that will achieve the DOE’s
Australia’s new ocean-going research vessel Investigator has discovered extinct volcanoes likely to be 50 million years old about 250 kilometres off the coast of Sydney. The chief scientist for the voyage, UNSW Australia marine biologist Professor Iain Suthers, said that while searching for the nurs
International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has added an open forum to the website where all with an interest in documents currently being written or revised can play an active role. “The first two documents subject to our new ‘open forum’ consultation stage approach are IMCA M 103 – ‘Guidel
Fairbanks Nijhuis, an engineering company, has developed a bi-directional tidal turbine equipped with blades that can rotate 180 degrees. The turbine was originally developed for the Power consortium that aims to research the possibility of generating electricity using dynamic tidal power concept in
In a paper published this week in Science, researchers from the Center for Ocean Solutions and co-authors from leading institutions around the world propose a strategy for balancing commercial extraction of deep-sea resources with protection of diverse seabed habitats. The paper is intended to infor
JBA Consulting has boosted its Marine and Coastal Risk Management team with the addition of two IDCORE research engineers. The research engineers, Ben Hudson and Edward Kay, will work on the further development, testing and application of JBA’s metocean planning tool – ForeCoast Marine Mission Plann
Two Dutch companies, Van den Herik and Boskalis/Cofra, recently won contracts for the construction of a vertical geotextile screen in the berm of the river levee along the Nederrijn, near Opheusden, the Netherlands. Requested by the Rivierenland water board, the two companies developed their own tec
