Technology
Top news, May 22 – 28, 2017
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from May 22 – 28, 2017.
OEEC 2017 opens for registration
The registration for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2017 (OEEC 2017) is now open. The celebratory tenth edition of this event is expected to attract over 12,000 offshore professionals and more than 650 exhibiting companies.
AW-Energy to present WaveRoller progress at CEM8
The Chief Executive of the Finnish wave energy developer AW-Energy, John Liljelund, will give a presentation on wave energy during the eighth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8).
Scottish Renewables awards wave and tidal young professionals
Scottish Renewables has honored EMEC’s Consents Officer Caitlin Long, and Wavepower’s Chief Executive David Rubie-Todd with Young Professionals Green Energy Awards trophies last night in Glasgow.
Kongsberg Launches New Compact Survey Vessel
Kongsberg GeoAcoustics has recently launched their new Compact Survey Vessel (CSV), specifically designed to survey shallow coastal and inland waterways quickly, using a powerful and manoeuvrable two-person catamaran equipped with the latest GeoSwath 4R shallow water simultaneous swath bathymetry an
Turbulent tides hit Alderney
Alderney Commission for Renewable Energy (ACRE) has reportedly cancelled the agreement with Alderney Renewable Energy for the development of tidal power resources around the island’s waters.
New Bird Monitoring Innovation Challenge Takes Off
Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has partnered with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to launch an innovation challenge to help wind farm developers better monitor and understand the behaviour of important species.
Video: Wavepiston deployment at DanWEC
Wavepiston has released a video showing the recent redeployment of its wave energy device prototype off the coast of Denmark.
UTM OTEC, DCNS complete Malaysia ocean thermal plant study
DCNS and OTEC Centre of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM OTEC) have wrapped up the pre-feasibility study for the proposed ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plant off Layang-Layang island in Malaysia.
JFSE Wraps up Trenching in Kandla Gujarat
James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE) recently completed a challenging project for underwater services company Seatek in the Kandla Gujarat region of North-west India. Experts deployed its shallow water Twin R2000 tool for post-lay trenching and backfilling of an HDPE pipeline with concrete sinker b
EU allots over €8 million to ODYSSEA project
The European Union (EU) has awarded €8.4 million to the ODYSSEA project consortium to develop an interoperable platform that fully integrates networks of observation and forecasting systems across the Mediterranean basin.
Atlantis secures £4 million via share placing
Atlantis Resources has raised a total of £4.05 million through the placing of new ordinary shares in the company.
SCORE project makes progress off Portuguese coast
The MORE team of the Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) from the University of Algarve is finalizing preparations for the deployment of the scaled Evopod tidal energy unit as part of the SCORE project.
Jobs in renewables grow to almost 10 million
More than 9.8 million people were employed in the renewable energy sector in 2016, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).