The Carbon Trust is working as part of a consortium created to progress the development of tidal and floating wind energy test centre in Japan. The Carbon Trust has been working closely with both the Wind Energy Institute of Tokyo and the Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association on the
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and EMEC have launched Technology Assessment Process (TAP) to de-risk marine energy technology development. TAP has been designed to support wave and tidal energy technology developers, enabling them to benchmark their technologies and follow a more structure
Scottish Enterprise has announced the successful completion of a number of key projects in the marine energy sector. Supported by £4.8 million of grants from the Scottish Enterprise Marine Energy RD&D Fund programme, Scotland continues to advance the marine energy sector through the completion of th
The Carbon Trust is working as part of a consortium set up to progress the development of a tidal and floating wind energy test centre in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The Nagasaki Prefecture has been identified as a potential location for the offshore renewable test site, to not only take advanta
The Carbon Trust is working as part of a consortium set up to progress the development of a tidal and floating wind energy test centre in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The Nagasaki Prefecture has been identified as a potential location for the offshore renewable test site, to not only take advanta
The final phase of a major project to investigate cost-effective methods of cable laying for tidal power arrays, with the aim of helping accelerate development of the marine energy industry, has been completed in Orkney. Funded by Scottish Enterprise, the £2.4 million Tidal Array Cabling Solution pr
Resolute Marine Ltd (RML), the Irish subsidiary of US-based wave energy developer Resolute Marine Energy, won the ‘EIP Water got talents award’ at the European Innovation Platform for Water conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. A panel of judges from world-class water companies and investment firms
All American Marine (AAM) has won a contract for the construction of a hydrofoil-assisted survey catamaran for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. The vessel will primarily perform survey missions and some dive operations in support of dredging work planned within the Corps’ Phi
EMO Marine Technologies has been awarded a contract with OpenHydro for the Cape Sharp Tidal project. EMO Marine Technologies has designed and developed a turnkey monitoring system for the turbine deployment and recovery platform. Its monitoring system converts underwater video and sensor data stream
Flemish wave energy developer Laminaria has joined forces with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Innosea, Ghent University, and TTI Testing to support the development of its wave energy converter (WEC). The main focus of the project is to prove the survivability of the Laminaria WEC, which i
Schottel Hydro will deliver 16 Schottel Instream Turbines (SIT) with a capacity of 62 kW each to the Isle of Wight-based enigneering company Sustainable Marine Energy (SME). The turbines will be delivered over the course of two years. The scope of supply also includes the power electrics for the tur
SmartBay Ireland has achieved international accreditation for health, safety, quality and environmental management. SmartBay was accredited with OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 14001:2004 Environment and ISO 9001:2008 Quality standards. The bespoke integrated management system w
Allswater, a Canada-based engineering firm specializing in marine and offshore applications, has designed XTidal Instream Platform (XIP) aimed at tidal energy industry. The third generation platform has been designed with an increased platform capacity, modular construction and enhanced stability –
Indian state of Karnataka has struck a deal with a French-based company Tar Kovacs Systems to develop an ocean based renewable energy project. The deal was reached during the Make In India Week event, held in Dubai last week. The week-long event gathered more than 800,000 visitors, with the aim of c
