Researchers at Cardiff University are working on technology which will contribute to the development of a ‘super- grid’ for sharing renewable power across Europe. Working with Leuven University (KU Leuven) in Belgium, the MEDOW project is investigating ways of sharing offshore wind power via a grid
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Research Vessel (R/V) Knorr is retiring from service. Knorr conducted its last Long Core mission in November 2014. After hundreds of science expeditions, and port stops in more than 40 countries, the ship returned to the Woods Hole dock December 3. The ship’s fat
Petronas is studying technically and commercially viable techniques of developing high CO2 fields, with end-to-end CO2 management. According to the company it’s embarking on one of the largest Carbon Capture and Storage projects in the world. Petronas will present it’s plans at the upcoming Internat
The water temperatures on the West Antarctic shelf are rising. The reason for this is predominantly warm water from greater depths, which as a result of global change now increasingly reaches the shallow shelf. There it has the potential to accelerate the glacier melt from below and trigger the slid
Piedroba Consulting Group (PCG), a leading provider of technical consultancy services throughout the Americas, has had an exceptional 2014, filled with lots of activities and great accomplishments. Dredging Today caught up with Piedroba partners Jelle Prins and Luis Prieto y Munoz to discuss their 2
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) initiative, in collaboration with Carbon Trust, may soon launch a competitive design competition. The objectives of the competition are to reduce the cost of the installation processes for seabed mounted tidal turbine found
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) initiative, in collaboration with Carbon Trust, may shortly launch a competitive design competition. The objectives of the competition are to reduce the cost of the installation processes for seabed mounted tidal turbine fo
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) initiative, in collaboration with Carbon Trust, may shortly launch a competitive design competition. The objectives of the competition are to reduce the cost of the installation processes for seabed mounted tidal turbine fo
Mojo Maritime has won the Best Tidal Industry Collaboration Award at the 8th International Tidal Energy Summit for its leadership of the Hi Flo 4 (HF4) tidal energy vessel consortium, comprised of Voith, Bauer Renewables, DNV GL and University of Exeter. The HF4 project, supported by the Technology
Following the successful completion of its first operational trial of its LiquiBuoy system,earlier this year, engineering firm Aubin Subsea announced that it could transform subsea lifting. LiquiBuoy is an alternative to traditional buoyancy systems currently on the market, such as syntactic foam. I
Continuing its strategy of creating and delivering exceptional wind analysis and development tools, AWS Truepower, LLC, an international leader in renewable energy consulting and information services, has purchased the Windographer software from Mistaya Engineering, Inc. Windographer is the market-l
West Normandy Marine Energy, the local public company supporting the development of Renewable Marine Energy (RME) industrial sector in West Normandy, endorses ADEME’s decision in the call-for-tender, which has chosen the consortia of Alstom/GDF Suez and DCNS/EDF Energies Nouvelles. This 120 million
OWI-Lab will participate in the EWEA Workshop ‘Analysis of Operating Wind Farms 2014’ taking place next week 8 and 9 December in Malmö-Sweden. It we will give an overview of its current research topics, challenges, results and future perspectives. OWI-Lab is a Belgian R&D initiative for offshore win
Over 8000 square kilometers of the seafloor have been searched but no debris has been found relating to the missing Malaysian Airline. The latest news on the search vessel movement tells us that Fugro Equator continues to conduct bathymetric survey work in the search area. To date, over 185,000 squa
