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ADEME backs Guinard Energies’ tidal installation system
French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) has provided funding to Guinard Energies’ to further advance its tidal turbine installation system.
Morlais tidal demo zone gets £4.5M boost
Menter Môn, the manager of the Morlais tidal energy project, has been awarded £4.5 million of EU and Welsh government funds to further develop the scheme proposed off Anglesey in North Wales.
Kraken tidal platform clears factory acceptance tests
Edinburgh-based engineering consultancy QED Naval has completed the factory acceptance tests on its Subhub tidal platform named Kraken.
Corrosion testing restarted at WaveRoller installation site
OCEANIC project team has deployed a set of samples off the coast of Portugal to study fouling and corrosion on materials used for the construction of marine renewable energy devices.
FORESEA to launch fourth offshore energy call at OEEC 2017
The FORESEA project will launch a call for proposals from developers of offshore energy supply technologies at the Offshore Energy 2017 event which takes place in Amsterdam on 10 & 11 October.
Top news, September 18 – 24, 2017
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from September 18 – 24, 2017.
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 18-24, 2017). Royal IHC Launches NMDC’s First Custom-Built TSHD The launch ceremony of ARZANA – a 6,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) – took place on September 20, at Royal IHC’s shipyard in
Waves4Power officially opens wave power plant
The wave power plant of the Swedish wave energy developer Waves4Power has been officially opened by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway.
Evopod redeployment kicks off in Portugal
The redeployment operation of the Evopod tidal unit has begun this morning off the coast of Portugal.
North England and Scotland poised to drive UK’s offshore renewables
A new audit of the offshore renewable energy industry in the North of England and Scotland has identified strong economic and job growth opportunities the region can make for the UK. The Offshore Renewable Energy Science and Innovation Audit (SIA) highlights the area’s world-class research in the fi
in2Dredging Presents the EPR Tool
Most projects in the dredging and maritime industries collect vast amounts of data from their equipment’s sophisticated onboard systems. But is this data, despite being so easily acquired, being used effectively? Inconsistent or incomplete data reviews can lead to expensive false positive results, y
Nautricity to recover tidal turbine for upkeep
Glasgow-based tidal energy developer Nautricity plans to retrieve its CoRMaT tidal turbine for maintenance purposes in the coming weeks.
#ThrowbackThursday Video: Olympic Zeus installs WaveEL
Take a look at the video of the installation of Waves4Power’s WaveEL wave energy device conducted early in 2016 ahead of today’s inauguration of the system which has been supplying power to the Norwegian grid for over three months.
Dragflow Takes Part at the Genoa Show
Dragflow – a global player in solid pumping solutions – and Dragflow South will be present at the International Boat Show in Genoa, an important event for the sector in its fifty-seventh edition. In particular, on Saturday, September 23, the company will take part in the schedule of initiatives orga