Leask Marine has expanded its Wales base, moving from Marine Energy Wales’ Marine Energy Hub. Starting from 2020, Leask Marine has moved to a light industrial unit on Pier Road in Pembroke Dock, to have workshop and equipment storage space, as well as administrative offices. Leask Marine established
UK’s technology innovation and research centre Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has appointed Alex Smith, Group financial controller, risk and insurance manager of Forth Ports, to its Board. Chairman, Colin Hood, said: “Alex brings extensive financial experience having worked in a variety of
Seabased Group and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult will collaborate on designing a software tool to accurately simulate the performance of the Seabased system in different wave environments The tool should allow the Norwegian-based company to optimise its turnkey wave parks for particul
SIMEC Atlantis Energy said that its 6MW tidal energy project MeyGen has exported close to 25 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity to the national grid. MeyGen exported over 13.8GWh of renewable electricity in 2019, according to Atlantis’ operational update, equivalent to the average annual
Marine energy developer Eco Wave Power has taken the next step towards commercialization of its wave energy technology by finalizing the assembly of the hydraulic energy conversion unit for its Jaffa Port project and entered the electrical assembly phase, to be executed by Siemens. The hydraulic con
Irish company DesignPro Renewables has completed the deployment and testing of its 60kW (DPR60) turbine at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, Scotland in conjunction with Leask Marine. The completely operational turbine and deployment system underwent a comprehensive series of tow testing to prove out
Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) has issued guidelines for those considering applying for MEA support. Developers of early stage (TRL 3/4) marine energy technology concepts, make sure to continue reading. MEA project has a total budget of €6 million and is financially supported by Interreg North West Eu
The EU-funded project “Multiple Use of Space for Island Clean Autonomy” (MUSICA) has recently held its kick-off meeting in Chios, Greece. The Valetta Declaration launched the Clean Energy for EU islands initiative aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition for small islands. It calls for acti
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ETIP Ocean and DTOceanPlus are setting up a joint webinar on Stage Gate design tool for ocean energy. Stage gate processes such as the Wave Energy Scotland programme, and also proposed by ETIP Ocean in the Powering Homes report, aim to mitigate risk through consistent assessment against standardised
Eco Wave Power’s power station manager Juan Jose Gomez Restrepo has hosted a visit in Gibraltar of Jonas Ljungström, Naventus Corporate Finance senior partner and board member. Eco Wave engaged Naventus to write research reports and analysis, in the process of expanding its investor relations activi
The European Commission has recently presented “The European Green Deal’s Investment Plan – the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan” to mobilise public investment and unlock private funds through EU financial instruments, which would lead to at least €1 trillion of investments. On 11 December 2019, t
Horizon 2020-funded Space@Sea project is carrying out concept trials of wave energy converter (WEC) system and floater-floater connectors. The testing is being undertaken at international research institute DST, located in University of Duisburg-Essen and one of the project partners. Space@Sea began
Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) will organize a live webinar about its recently launched second call for support. The Webinar will be held on 28 January at 14.30 CET, presented by Daphne Linzell from Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC), Lead Partner – Marine Energy Alliance. After the first successful ca
