Alstom, a French-based technology developer, has released a video showcasing its Oceade tidal platform. Oceade tidal platform allows customers to select various turbines to fit their sites’ specific requirements. Alstom has developed Oceade 18 – 1.4 MW tidal turbine, with an improved design based on
Scotland’s wave energy test centers are collaborating to support technology companies aiming to develop the next generation of wave energy converters. The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), and the FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility will work together to offer real world technical input and t
Duchy of Lancaster has granted exclusivity rights to Natural Energy Wyre to build a tidal barrage across the river Wyre, Lancashire, UK. Natural Energy Wyre, the developer behind Wyre Tidal Barrage, can now proceed with the funding and planning application stage for the Wyre Tidal Barrage project. T
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has issued a second competitive project call for the development of novel wave energy converters. According to WES, applicants will need to have already identified a concept and carried our preliminary feasibility work. WES will only seek to support truly novel devices whi
Hilal Makina, a company based in Körfez, Kocaeli (Turkey), recently completed major delivery of dredge parts to an international dredging giant. The company successfully delivered two Side Wire Guidance sets along with various spare parts and other similar equipment to be used for complex dredge sys
AW-Energy, the company behind WaveRoller, hosted the visit from Portuguese officials at the installation site in Almagreira, Portugal. The Portuguese Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Jorge Moreira da Silva, and the Secretary of State for Energy, Artur Trinidade, visited both the
The government of Chile, through the Ministry of Energy and Corfo, has signed an agreement with French-based DCNS to create a marine energy research and development center in Chile. The agreement was signed by Maximo Pacheco, Minister of Energy for Chile, Hervé Guillou, CEO of DCNS, and Eduardo Bitr
UK Secretary of State, Amber Rudd, has granted the planning consent for the construction of the world’s first tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay. Swansea Bay 320 MW tidal lagoon project, developed by Tidal Lagoon Power, has a design life of 120 years and a net annual power output of 400 GWh. It is enough t
BlueTec floating tidal platform is located in the Marsdiep, the Netherlands. Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel island in the Netherlands. BlueTec tidal platform houses a single T1 100 kW Tocardo tidal turbine. The platform will serve as a demonstration targeted at remote loca
Following the successful punching through of the second bore hole, the construction at the MeyGen tidal array site north of Caithness, Scotland, is making a good progress. According to Atlantis Resources’ social media, the drilling works are progressing well with the company now halfway through the
Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has recently been in Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Rotterdam for a scope of work which allows the vessel to operate at greater water depths in future. Stornes is a 175m long, 26.24m wide, DP2 vessel, used for subsea rock installation to protect piping. Sin
Existing satellites applications can be used to provide solutions to offshore renewable energy industry challenges, and therefore drive down the cost of energy from offshore wind, wave and tide, according to ORE Catapult. The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) and Satellite Applications (SatApps) Catap
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) and Satellite Applications (SatApps) Catapults have joined forces to explore ways in which satellites can be used to drive forward the development of the UK’s offshore renewable energy industry. According to the Catapults, satellites present possible solutions to some
Ian Holden, currently Project Surveyor with DOF Subsea in Aberdeen, has been elected Chairman of The Hydrographic Society UK (THS UK) in succession to David Parker, the UKHO’s Hydrography Manager with particular responsibility for its Civil Hydrography Program (CHP). A former Liverpool Port Hydrogra
