Marine Energy Wales has announced that phase 1 of its Marine Energy Test Area (META) project is officially open for business. The announcement was made during a launch event held at Pembroke Port and marks a significant step in the development of the project. With eight pre-consented sites located i
Foyle and Marine Dredging Ltd has just released these beautiful photos of their backhoe dredger ‘Dinopotes’, assisted by the tug ‘Ada Dorothy’, during their work outside Waterfoot in the Glens of Antrim, Red Bay in Northern Ireland. “It is a sensitive environment, thus we are using silt curtains to
A consortium of partners led by Principle Power has been awarded a USD 3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop, validate and operate DIGIFLOAT, the world’s first digital twin software tailored to floating offshore wind applic
Carnegie has raised the required $5.5 million to continue with the final phases of the recapitalisation plan. Existing shareholders contributed approximately $4.4 million, with around $1.1 million coming from new investors under the Shortfall Offer. The initial plan was to raise a minimum of $5.5 mi
A research project to make the island of Texel in the Netherlands sustainable through wave energy has now reached the planning stage for the installation of a wave energy farm prototype. Invented by Erwin Croughs, the Slow Mill wave pilot project aims to install five or six Slow Mills and create a w
Goldwind has launched its prototype 8MW offshore wind turbine at its facility in Fujian, China. Based on the complete test and certification, the turbine will conduct a two-month drive train test at Goldwind’s Fujian test platform. The 8MW turbine will be installed at the Xinghua Bay Project Phase I
Ocean Power Innovation Network (OPIN) will be holding the projects first OPIN Annual Symposium, taking place alongside the Ocean Energy Europe 2019 Conference in the Convention Centre Dublin on September 30. The Symposium will provide an opportunity for OPIN members to network and learn more about t
Irish hydrokinetic turbine developer GKinetic Energy returned to the IFREMER test facility in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France last week for a full 5 days of testing on an optimised device that was both submerged and deployed at the surface for comparative analysis. The testing is part of a much larger, ove
Efforts to understand the potential of tidal energy to play a role in Nova Scotia’s clean energy future have taken another step forward with the appointment of new board directors to the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), as well as the launch of new live site data from the Minas Passag
The University of Maine has been awarded nearly USD 1.4 million from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to design an ultra-lightweight, corrosion-resistant, concrete floating offshore wind turbine. The floating turbine will be equipped with NASA m
On Wednesday 9 October, Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC), Dutch Energy from Water Association (EWA) and Navingo organise the 5th annual Marine Energy Event. This session will delve into how marine energy solutions can drive our energy transition and next steps foreseen to successfully commercialize
Wave energy firm Mocean Energy has set up a base in Aberdeen to commercialise its Seabase technology. The Edinburgh start-up – which has already secured £100,000 from Scottish Enterprise for the technical development of Seabase and further £100,000 from the Oil & Gas Technology Centre for its commer
Biome Renewables has started the testing of its PowerCone tidal technology in Strangford Loch, Northern Ireland in cooperation with Queens University Belfast and Cuan Marine Services. After months of preparation the company started the turbine testing, assessing performance in flows nearing 2 m/s, R
Connecticut based MarkZero Prototypes and Irish based Sea Power have teamed up to take part in the US Department of Energy’s wave to water competition. Their joint mission is to develop and deploy an working prototype of a small scale wave energy driven reverse osmosis system. The prototype will use
