The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has launched its tidal energyfassasafsafto advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. This second round of Flexible Funding will award a total of up to £1.2 million to researchers at UK Higher Educa
SIMEC Atlantis Energy said that its 6MW tidal energy project MeyGen has now exported 26 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity to the national grid. To remind, MeyGen exported over 13.8GWh of renewable electricity in 2019, according to Atlantis’ operational update, equivalent to the average a
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has reported revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2020 of $725,000, an increase of $457,000 as compared to $268,000 for the prior-year period. The increase was attributable to revenue generated from the Enel Green Power (EGP) project in Chile project. OPT shipped a
SEA Wave and WESE have launched an online platform, MARENDATA, to share environmental monitoring data collected within the marine energy industry. Co-funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, both SEA Wave and WESE are undertaking environmental research campaigns to better understand the p
SmartBay Ireland is looking to recruit a finance administrator. A key aspect of the role will involve financial reporting and the maintenance of accounts and budgets. The role will incorporate the coordination of EU project financial reporting. The financial administrator will also be responsible fo
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The NEMMO project has recently installed a set of tidal turbine blade panels made from fibreglass and a gel-coat coating for testing at the HarshLab facility. The samples, taken from the current Magallanes’ turbine blade, will be submerged for six months to determine the level of biofouling on the s
Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has partnered with ABB to bring clean energy from the oceans. CorPower has developed a prototype in the form of a buoy that takes wave power and turns it into electricity. The buoy in the water, which moves two to three meters up and down, is reinforced w
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has recently produced two new deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector. The deliverables correspond to the technical manuals of the alpha version of two modules: Energy Delivery module of the deployment design tool. This module will de
HR Wallingford has reportedly developed a sophisticated fish collision model for the tidal power industry which predicts collision rates more accurately than ever before by incorporating the real swimming behaviours of different species of fish for the first time. The journal of ‘Renewable Energy’ h
Scottish firm Ecosse IP (EIP) has announced the arrival of its latest product, Mass of Water Turbine (MOWT), designed to generate energy from slow-moving water. The MOWT technology, patent-pending, is designed for use in rivers, estuaries and subsea current & tidal environments, offering an energy s
Tokio Marine has signed a purchase agreement to acquire renewable energy risks specialist GCube. GCube is one of the world’s largest underwriters of renewable energy, covering wind, solar, bio, hydro, wave and tidal projects globally. The business writes global property and liability cover for renew
Swedish wave power company Ocean Harvesting Technologies (OHT) has become member of Norway’s GCE Ocean Technology. Since 2017, the Swedish company has been focusing on InfinityWEC. Each individual wave power plant can produce up to 500 kW of average power and 2 GWh annually, and will be included in
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) said that that Eni has extended its lease of a PB3 PowerBuoy for an additional 18 months. OPT has also been contracted for an additional scope of work to provide a power and communications solution for an entirely new application in the Adriatic Sea. Following more tha
