Largest shareholders of Swedish marine energy developer Minesto, BGA Invest and Midroc New Technology, have made further investments in the company by having exercised all of their warrants. “As long-term and active owners in Minesto, BGA Invest and Midroc New Technology have been crucial to take th
UK’s technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy, ORE Catapult, is looking for a regional innovation manager based in Cornwall. Reporting to the Sector Lead Wave & Tidal Energy, this role should help maintain and grow ORE Catapult’s established support to SME innovation i
Scottish engineering consultancy QED Naval said that its Subhub tidal power platform was lifted into the water earlier this month. The lift was managed and supported by Doyle Shipping Group who conducted all stevedoring operations and provided boat support. They contracted Kavanagh Cranes to perform
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has appointed Ian Wakelin as an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee with immediate effect. Wakelin was previously CEO of Biffa, one of the UK’s largest waste management businesses and led the IPO of the business in 2016. He was previously co-f
Rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production, new research by the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde suggests. An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using el
UK-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has updated its Learning Hub with the addition of marine renewable energy module. With sustainable energy under discussion at the World Future Energy Summit earlier this month, this programme is for engineers who want to know more extracting energy from
The new Interreg NWE project Ocean DEMO, created to provide funding to developers of marine renewable technologies to test their products or services in real sea environments, has been officially launched on Monday. Ocean DEMO specifically targets multi-machine ocean energy installations. Ocean DEMO
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MaRINET2 has launched its fifth free course on marine renewable energies, scheduled to happen from 22 to 24 April in Edinburgh, UK. The short course, entitled “Test and verification processes from tanks to the sea”, will be hosted by project partners FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility and Europe
The board of directors of Swedish wave energy company Seabased has decided to liquidate one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Seabased Industries AB.This primarily affects Seabased production facility in Lysekil, Sweden. The board has directed Oivind Magnussen (CEO) to take the appropriate actions t
Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) has held a webinar on Tuesday, January 15, to provide information on its recently opened second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy. The second Joint Call was launched on January 8, and the webi
Leask Marine’s fabrication workshop has taken delivery of two of the largest tubular sections that they have ever received for the construction of the very first tidal platform ever to be built in Orkney. Leask Marine were awarded the contract for the manufacturing and supply contract of a Surface F
Offshore Marine Systems is seeking to raise £4 million in equity funding, for the construction and deployment of a full scale 6 Megawatt Wave Energy Converter (W.E.C.) The W.E.C. is capable to operate far offshore in hostile seas and oceans, generating electrical power for shore based receivers on t
Marine planning and environmental consultancy, MarineSpace Ltd, has strengthened its team with two new appointments. Sam Strutton will be joining the Southampton office as a marine consultant and will support the team with physical processes, geophysics, data processing and GIS capabilities. Strutto
