Time lapse radar imaging at FORCE shows flow features in western Minas Passage over tow tide cycles. The radar imaging could assist with marine operations and turbine placement. The images were created using FORCE’s marine radar system. This radar focuses on clutter rather then filtering it out. The
The ECOWindS Consortium has welcomed the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to the ECOWindS project as an official third party associated partner. ORE Catapult is the UK’s flagship technology innovation and research centre for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, and is the UK counterpart to
Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has submitted a proposal to extend the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA), to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the organization informed through their social media. A Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (P
Minesto has welcomed EU’s new energy strategy deeming it as an important and necessary step to speed up the process of reaching a sustainable future. The European Commission has published a strategy to renew EU’s energy policy, underlying the ocean energy as one of the main renewable technologies th
MAKE has released its Q1/2015 Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update, where the consultancy company presents an analysis of global and regional wind power installation forecasts through 2024. MAKE projects more than 25% reduction in wind energy LCOE for some regions by 2025. The combination of inno
Seaborn Networks, Netell Telecom, and Citatel Dutos e Fibras Opticas announced that Seaborn has acquired backhaul and metro fiber network capacity in the State of Sao Paulo from Netell and Citatel for Seaborn’s Brazil-US subsea cable. This contracted capacity provides a diverse, dark fiber backhaul
Oceanflow Energy, a UK-based tidal energy developer, has completed the winter trials of their Evopod floating tidal energy device. The device was deployed in Sanda Sound, South Kintyre, UK from August 7, 2014. The aim of the trials was to demonstrate Evopod’s low motions and survivability characteri
Ocean Power Technologies has announced plans to deploy their APB-350 (A1) PowerBuoy wave device in summer 2015. The company stated the new PowerBuoy APB-350 (A1) will use the existing structure deployed in 2013, with a newly designed power take-off (PTO) system and upgraded components. The deploymen
Carnegie Wave has installed the third and final CETO 5 Unit off the Garden Island. The full array of three units is now operating at Perth Wave Energy Project site. Carnegie initially planned to retrieve the two deployed units for inspection prior to installing the third, but the company decided to
DTOcean will showcase the alpha version of the decision-making and planning tool for the development of tidal and wave arrays to pioneering project developers, utilities, OEMS, technology developers and supply chain actors. The workshop organized by DTOcean provides an opportunity for shaping the de
Offshore Energy Research Association (OERA) Student Research Travel Program has provided six Nova Scotia students the opportunity to build their international networks through travel to the USA, Ireland, and Bermuda to conduct their thesis research in the fields of marine renewable energy and offsho
It’s the second day of the Adriatic Oil & Gas Summit (AOG) in Budva, Montenegro, a summit focused on the offshore oil and gas investment opportunities within Montenegro, Croatia and Albania. The day two started off by covering the production lifecycle for exploration from the seismic and ultrasound
UK Secretary of State, Ed Davey, has 3 months to make a decision on the project. The six-month examination period closed on December 10, 2014. Planning Inspectorate had a period of 3 months to consider and make a recommendation to the Secretary of State. The Planning Inspectorate issued a report of
At deltas of rivers where fresh water mixes with salt water, energy associated with the salinity gradient can be harnessed using pressure-retarded reverse osmosis process and associated conversion technologies. Salinity power is one of the largest potential sources of renewable energy. The potential
