Marine energy developer Minesto has completed the first offshore installation phase of its Faroe Islands project. The company has set up the gravity-based foundation for the powerplant at the site in Vestmannasund. David Collier, COO at Minesto, said: “The operations team has managed to safely progr
The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has opened its 3rd call. Successful applicants will receive free access to test their ocean energy products and services in real sea environments at the project’s network of test centres. This call will focus on supporting technology developers with high readiness le
Eco Wave Power has reported a wider net loss for the first quarter of 2020 with no revenues and increased costs. The wave energy technology firm booked a loss of SEK 4.4 million (USD 466,000/EUR 419,000), increasing from SEK 1.7 million a year earlier. Operating costs almost doubled to SEK 1 million
Orkney marine specialist Leask Marine is looking for tidal turbines or licences for its mobile marine floating platform the “MARINUS”. The Marinus is the very first Orkney-built tidal platform. It is part of Instream’s technology diversification into the marine environment. The Canadian firm picked
ETIP Ocean will publish a new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) on 19 June this year. The SRIA identifies six challenge areas, defined as R&I fields worth investing during the next period of five years. Each area includes several priorities assessed according to the opportunity for the
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking for a performance test engineer. The position aims to deliver EMEC’s services into collaborative R&D projects, focussed on marine energy device testing and performance assessment. The engineer should have well-developed critical, numerical and anal
Three tidal developers, Orbital Marine Power, SABELLA and Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), have joined forces as a Tidal Alliance at OEE2020. The Tidal Alliance is the result of industry players believing in the potential of the sector to be both a climate-friendly solution and an economic opportuni
SmartBay Ireland is collaborating on the RESOURCECODE project with an international consortium of businesses and Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) test sites. The project is led by the European Marine Energy Centre and aims to create an integrated marine data toolbox that will enable developers of ocean
Marine Power Systems is seeking a design engineer to join its team and help achieve the company’s vision of clean, affordable, reliable renewable marine energy. The candidate should have expertise in the assembly as well as maintenance of very large, complex systems within CAD. The design engineer w
Possibilities to map and monitor the ocean remain restricted due to limitations with existing ocean observing technologies, including energy constraints. As a result, the US Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) teamed up to spur technology innovation which can
Scottish engineering firm Malin Group has called on the UK and Scottish governments to create “crucial connections” which will determine the commercial future of wave and tidal stream energy. The call comes after two decades in which government incentives have failed to produce commercially viable p
Swedish wave energy developer Waves4Power will install its WaveEL system at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in 2021. The company has secured EU Interreg Ocean Demo grant, giving it access to EMEC’s power-connected test berths for three years. The grant also allows Waves4Power to deliver and
The DTOceanPlus project partners have just finalised the implementation of standalone alpha versions for the different tools and modules. The tools are for the selection, development and deployment of ocean energy systems. The project partners will now check the code of each tool and module leading
French marine energy developer Sabella is looking for a project engineer to integrate the team of around 25 engineers. The project engineer will support project and pre-project managers in carrying out their work, with the support of internal technical design offices. The position also requires proj
