HRH The Prince of Wales has opened Marine Centre Wales, a national facility for the growing marine sector, at Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences.
The first Cape Sharp Tidal turbine and the Scotia Tide barge will arrive in the Halifax Harbour today where its steel subsea base will be ballasted with concrete.
Japan’s Hitachi Zosen and France’s Ideol signed a contract to launch the construction phase of their 2-turbine offshore wind project in Japan on 13 June, 2016. Prior to this contract, the two companies signed an engineering agreement on 3 June 2015 for the design of both a concrete and a steel versi
The Ministry of Energy and Water of the Republic of Angola has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Middle East-headquartered industrial group, Privinvest, to introduce hydrokinetic power generation to the country over the next decade.
Rotech Subsea has successfully completed an MBO (management buy-out) of the Rotech group of companies in a move that will see the company strengthen its position in subsea mass-flow excavation business. Following the MBO, the group’s three operating companies – Rotech Subsea, Rotech Engineering, and
Subsea Technology & Rentals Ltd. (STR) has entered into a partnership agreement with Aberdeen based Subsea Tooling Services (STS) to hire, service and support their high performance range of subsea dredging systems. The Predator and Gremlin range of dredgers will become the latest offering from STR
Swansea University is offering a mechanical engineering PhD scholarship on the optimisation of interacting floating bodies with application to wave energy devices, more specifically, Marine Power Systems’ WaveSub wave energy converter.
Finnish wave energy developer, AW-Energy, has received a €10 million loan for the construction of the full-scale WaveRoller wave energy device.
High-level talks have been held with the UK government aimed at ensuring long term benefits for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles from renewable energy.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking for System Developer to support the development of ocean energy assessment processes.
EEL Energy, a French-based tidal energy developer, has raised approximately €3 million to finance the development of its tidal energy device based on undulating membrane technology.
Siemens has expanded its portfolio with an 8MW offshore wind turbine. The first SWT-8.0-154 will be installed in early 2017 and will allow for up to 10% higher annual energy production (AEP) under offshore wind conditions as compared to the 7MW model, the company said. Type certification for the 8MW
Siemens has expanded its portfolio with an 8MW offshore wind turbine. The first SWT-8.0-154 will be installed in early 2017 and will allow for up to 10% higher annual energy production (AEP) under offshore wind conditions as compared to the 7MW model, the company said. Type certification for the 8MW
Hindawi Publishing’s Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal is inviting researchers and scientists to contribute original research articles with a focus on the latest mathematical knowledge for offshore renewable energy (ORE) engineering to progress the sector.
