The technology group Wärtsilä, together with a consortium of six other industry and academic partners, has been awarded EU funding for a major project aimed at reducing fuel consumption and lowering emission levels for shipping. The SeaTech project consortium has been formed to develop two symbiotic
Ocean Power Technologies has signed a letter of intent with Taiwan-based BAP Precision (BAP) to provide PowerBuoy joint surveillance solutions for government agency contract pursuits for policing territorial waters. “BAP is an established provider of satellite data solutions for industry and governm
Ocean energy solutions company Bombora has launched a tender with aim to hire a contractor for the fabrication of the intervention tool structure for the mWave wave energy converter demonstrator. The intervention tool structure is the floating structure which facilitates the subsea installation and
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has announced that the prototype for its newest product, the hybrid PowerBuoy, is in production at its New Jersey facility. The hybrid PowerBuoy will offer remote power for subsea and topside applications, reliable data communications, and a nominal 1.5-megawatt hours
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The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program is preparing to announce its first call for Requests for Technical Support (RFTS) and now has an official website and mailing list. Announced by DOE last year, TEAMER’s mission is to accelerate the viability of marine renew
The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) have partnered to make new funding available to support growth of innovative blue economy technologies, including marine energy. EDA’s Build to Scale program has made $35 mill
ETIP Ocean and DTOceanPlus project is hosting a webinar to describe the general concepts of the ocean energy systems Structured Innovation Design Tool, its practical implementation, and future work. The tool supports the decision-making of several user types, including technology developers, public
In collaboration with MaRINET2, The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), WavEC Offshore Renewables and the Marine Engineering Institute – Italian National Research Council (CNR-INM), will organize a course entitled “Methods and environmental data collection in Marine Renewable Energy Sites”. The sh
Ireland-Wales cooperation programme, the Selkie project, is inviting wave energy developers to tender their services to validate multi-use engineering tools, templates, standards and models, which can be used across the sector in both Wales and Ireland. The Selkie project is bringing together resear
Tidal energy developer Magallanes Renovables, has been testing its second generation, 2MW tidal platform ATIR at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), since 2018, as part of the Ocean_2G project. The aim of the project was to test, validate and pre-certify Magallanes’ device and this was achieve
Ocean Power Innovation Network (OPIN) will be holding its second Annual Symposium in Nantes on June 11, 2020. The OPIN Annual Symposium will provide an update on OPIN’s goals and the different supports available, a brainstorming session on potential working groups to be funded by OPIN, and a network
Basque Energy Agency, Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE), said that Mutriku Wave Energy Plant has generated an accumulated figure of 2GWh. It is the first time it has been achieved by a wave power plant anywhere in the world, EVE said. Opened in 2011, the commercially operative facility generates electr
Scottish engineering company Orbital Marine Power is looking for experts in turbine dynamic controller design as part of the Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project, known as TIGER. In parallel to its O2-2000 turbine build, Orbital is running an innovations project to identify key innovations and de
