Cal Poly’s Institute for Advanced Technology & Public Policy has received a one-year $1.5 million grant from the US Department of Energy for the second phase of assessing the feasibility of establishing a national wave energy test center off California.
Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has appointed Euan Fenelon as Director of Asset Management, and Kevin Quinn as Head of Site Management.
The S-4000 Hydrohammer pile-driving system installed its first monopiles at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, IHC IQIP, a business unit of Royal IHC which recently launched the system, reports. The fully operational S-4000 unit was delivered to DEME Group’s offshore marine engineering division
ORPC Alaska, a subsidiary of Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC), has applied to US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to surrender the preliminary license for the proposed East Foreland tidal energy project, in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Norwegian-based Seabased Holding AS (SHAS) has become a new major shareholder of the Swedish-based wave energy developer Seabased AB, while initiating the creation of a new Nordic Ocean Renewable Energy Group.
University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (APL-UW) and the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) are seeking partners interested in producing wave or current energy converters and associated component technologies that could be tested in laboratory or field facilities.
Protean Wave Energy, a Perth-based wave energy developer, plans to begin the wave energy demonstration farm deployment off Bunbury, Western Australia, next month.
China has directed power transmission companies in the country to provide grid connection for all renewable energy power sources, Reuters reports.
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), in collaboration with Vodafone, will attach ‘marine smartphones’ to harbour seals in Orkney to gain better understanding of population change in the species.
The new ‘Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016’ report states the investments in renewable energy have reached a new world record with total of $286 billion invested last year.
SEENEOH is a tidal testing site on the Garonne river, in close proximity to the city center of Bordeaux, France, designed to test full-scale river and mid-scale ocean tidal energy devices.
Norfolk Marine Ltd has completed a bathymetric survey of five turbine foundations at the 60MW Scroby Sands offshore wind farm. The company used its WFS & Survey vessel the Norfolk Swift to carry out the survey. This was the final section of works within a contract to install the company’s TFN Scour
Fred. Olsen’s wave energy device Bolt Lifesaver has been deployed off the coast of Hawaii, USA. The device was deployed at Navy’s Kaneohe Bay Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) last week, the Pacific Business News reports. Prior to the deployment, the device has been refurbished and prepared for the insta
Check out the video showing the recently deployed EcoSPRAY marine structure designed to gather data in order to gain better understanding of floating tidal energy platforms and their moorings.
