BayWa is constructing the world’s largest floating PV installation outside of China, consisting of nearly 73,000 PV modules, 13 floating transformers and 192 inverter boats, on a sandpit lake in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Dr. Benedikt Ortmann, global director of Solar Projects at BayWa, stated: “In
EOLOS has started fulfilling the floating LiDAR Stage 3 requirements of the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap, after having two separate full-year deployment campaigns, throughout which the LiDAR met Stage 3 Key Performance Indicators.
The first items of the trailing pipe system for the Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 are being shipped from their yard in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, to Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. This dredger will be used by Hanson Aggregates Marine to extract aggregates in the British Channel and North Se
Mocean Energy has teamed up with energy major Chrysaor, subsea energy storage experts EC-OG and AUV specialist Modus in a project to look at using renewables for subsea power. The project, funded by the partners together with the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), will look to use Mocean Energy’s
ReFLEX Orkney project has progressed through the first stage of the project, following a review meeting with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Funded by UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, ReFLEX Orkney is aiming to integrate electricity, transport and heat networks in Orkney using
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Australian wave power firm Carnegie Clean Energy continues progressing its CETO technology, after business setback recovery. To remind, Carnegie recapitalised the business and emerged from administration and reinstated to trading on the ASX on 31 October 2019. Since coming out of administration in O
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has recently produced six new deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector. The aim of the DTOceanPlus project is to develop and demonstrate a suite of second generation advanced design tools for the selection, development and deployment o
Seabased has signed an agreement with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to design and implement a testing programme supporting Seabased’s certification goal for its wave-to-grid wave energy park technology. Certification should pave the way for quality-controlled manufacture. A certified proc
Ocean energy solutions company Bombora has appointed Andrew Buglass to its board of directors. Buglass joins Bombora as the team prepares to deploy the full-scale 1.5MW mWave Pembrokeshire demonstration project later in 2020 and progressing wave park opportunities in Lanzarote and developing a globa
Ocean Infinity has launched a new marine technology and data company, Armada, which will bring in 15 robot vessels to be used for offshore surveys. The fleet is currently under construction and is expected to be delivered by the end of 2020.
Aberdeen’s Axis Energy Projects has won two national awards for its innovative Tension Leg Buoy technology that is being developed for deployment in the floating offshore wind sector. The Axis TLB is a substructure and mooring system that provides controlled stability, roll and pitch for wind turbin
The National Hydrogen Centre (CNH2) and the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) will boost the collaboration of their infrastructures and resources in the production of hydrogen from renewable energies as an energy vector in the marine field and in sea applications. The National Hydrogen
The Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE) seeks its next chief executive officer. As reported earlier, Jim Hanlon announced his intention to resign after five years as COVE president and CEO. Jim Hanlon has led COVE since the start of planning in 2015, through the successful public a
