Technology
IRENA and State Grid of China to Cooperate on Energy Transition
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world’s largest utility, agreed to enhance their co-operation with a view to advancing the energy transition under global and regional initiatives, including the Paris Agreement and the Belt and Roa
Planning for Albany wave energy center gets underway
A meeting between Western Australia’s government officials and renewable energy industry stakeholders has been held in Albany to chart the course for the establishment of Wave Energy Centre of Excellence.
Shell: Offshore Wind Industry Should Evolve Towards 10GW Integrated Projects
The offshore wind industry should abandon the practice of awarding separate leases for offshore wind farms of up to 1GW each and instead start developing large, integrated projects of up to 10GW to lower cost, create value across the supply chain, and stimulate economic growth, Mark Gainsborough Exe
WETFEET tests at FloWave
The WETFEET wave energy project team has conducted two sets of tests at the FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility in Edinburgh.
Evopod tidal unit hits Portuguese waters
The MORE team of the Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) from the University of Algarve has installed a scaled Evopod tidal energy unit off Portugal.
DSA inks reseller deal with OceanPixel for Southeast Asia
Canadian ocean engineering software and consultancy company Dynamic Systems Analysis (DSA) has signed an agreement with OceanPixel of Singapore to represent it on the Southeast Asian market.
Ocean energy photography exhibition set for Brussels
An exhibition presenting the ocean energy industry’s most striking photography will take place in Brussels as part of 2017 EU Sustainable Energy Week.
Jan De Nul’s New Multipurpose Vessel Completes Sea Trials
Jan De Nul said in its latest announcement that their new multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant has successfully completed sea trials on the Yellow Sea. AVIC Shipyard from Weihai, China, launched this new multipurpose vessel for Jan De Nul Group in February. “To perform a variety of functions,
IEA: Current energy policies insufficient to reach climate goals
Renewable energy technologies must be considerably ramped up in order to meet long-term climate change targets and governments need to support large-scale deployments with the necessary policies, the International Energy Agency (IES) said in its latest report.
WindEurope: Floating Offshore Wind Ripe for Industrial Scale Roll-Out
Floating offshore wind is no longer consigned to the laboratory: it’s a viable technology ready to be rolled out on an industrial scale, according to the latest report from WindEurope released today at the Offshore Wind Energy 2017 event in London.
WindEurope: Floating Offshore Wind Ripe for Industrial Scale Roll-Out
Floating offshore wind is no longer consigned to the laboratory: it’s a viable technology ready to be rolled out on an industrial scale, according to the latest report from WindEurope released today at the Offshore Wind Energy 2017 event in London.
Hawaii sticks to Paris Agreement
The state of Hawaii has enacted a law that supports the commitments and goals of the Paris Agreement one week after the announcement that the United States plans to pull out of the climate change accord.
UK National Grid concludes initial CfD bids review
The non-qualification review assessment for the second contracts for difference (CfD) bids has been concluded, and an appeal window for renewables projects that failed to qualify for the support has been launched.
James Fisher Launches New MultiROV System
Excavation specialist James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE) has just launched the innovative new MultiROV system which reduces the services required from a vessel as it needs no stabilizing tuggers or clump weights. On-board thrusters allow movement and heading control which increase the operational