Paimpol-Bréhat tidal energy test site, located off France’s northern region of Brittany, is making great strides towards proving its sustainability, with one developer extending its trials until next year, and another announcing deployment for 2022.
BNP Paribas Asset Management has expanded its range of sustainable thematic investments with the launch of its first blue economy exchange-traded fund (ETF). The fund will build on the work BNP achieved with the circular economy ETF it launched in May 2019. This new ETF, called the BNP Paribas Easy
Scotland-based Orbital Marine Power is moving forward with the manufacturing process of its first O2 floating tidal turbine device rated at 2MW. The retractable legs officially landed on the O2’s floating hull delivered by Gray Fabrication in Dundee with six other parts that will support its turbine
Global developer of sustainable energy projects Simec Atlantis Energy has appointed a new non-executive director, and a special adviser to the company’s board of directors.
Politecnico di Torino and Eni have opened a joint research laboratory MORE – Marine Offshore Renewable Energy Lab to step up the innovation in marine renewable energy sector.
A new publication by industry association Ocean Energy Europe has estimated that 3 GW of ocean energy could be deployed worldwide, with costs falling to around €90/MWh for tidal stream, and €110/MWh for wave energy by 2030.
The MaRINET2 project consortium has organized a short course for offshore renewable energy researchers who will discuss methods for reducing uncertainty in techno-economic analysis of ocean energy.
Dutch tidal turbines business Tocardo has struck a deal to acquire the 1.25MW Oosterschelde Tidal Power Plant, the largest tidal array in the world installed on the Oosterscheldekering. The acquisition follows technical due diligence phase during September 2020. The Oosterschelde Tidal Power Plant c
Welsh-based Bombora Wave Power has awarded several contracts to support the fabrication and subsequent testing of its mWave energy device.
Marine Power Systems (MPS) has selected Quoceant as a contractor for the delivery of the first stage of WaveSub energy device’s power take-off design.
Humankind achieved its first interstellar flight in 2063 with a spacecraft powered by a warp drive, based on a matter-antimatter system fuelled by deuterium, a hydrogen isotope, and its antimatter equivalent. This is according to Star Trek, a series famous for featuring several things we might take
Marine engineering firm Apollo has completed a study for Bombora Wave Power verifying that mWave technology, when applied to a floating platform, can provide added value to large scale offshore energy projects.
A scale model of a tidal turbine is being tested in SSPA’s cavitation tunnel in Sweden as part of the NEMMO research project.
Scottish marine engineering firm QED Naval has launched two tenders to support the development of its Subhub tidal energy platform.
