Two Andritz Hydro Hammerfest (AHH) 1.5MW turbines that are part of the MeyGen array had been serviced and returned to their offshore home, where they recommenced generation at full capacity, SIMEC Atlantis Energy informed on October 22.
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from October 15 – 21, 2018.
The participants of the Sustainable Energy at Sea PORTS (SE@PORTS) project have met to present the technical progress made in the initiative looking to integrate wave energy converters at seaports as they discussed the next step forward.
The developers of the OptiWave financial and engineering optimization software have organized a free webinar to demonstrate the benefits of the tool for the emerging wave energy sector.
The direct drive power take-off (PTO) system – being developed as part of the TiPA project – has completed three months of performance testing at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy and the French region of Normandy have agreed to create a joint venture to develop a multi hundred-megawatt tidal stream project in Raz Blanchard in France.
The EU-funded MaRINET2 project has set up the third call for free access to testing facilities, designed for ocean energy developers, that will be launched on the first day of the month of November.
The independent survey, focused specifically on people living outside urban areas of Scotland, has found the population favors wave and tidal energy the most out of offered renewable energy options.
The €17 million SWARMs project is developing autonomous subsea vehicles (AUVs) based on artificial intelligence, that will be able to perform complex review and repair operations on underwater structures.
French company Sabella has completed the reinstallation of its D10 tidal turbine in Fromveur Passage, near Ushant island, where the onshore battery storage system has also been set up to increase the grid stability.
Scotrenewables Tidal Power has launched a comprehensive company-wide rebranding to Orbital Marine Power, together with public debentures offer to support the buildout of its Orbital O2 tidal energy turbine.
WavEC Offshore Renewables has organized a seminar that will present major projects on offshore renewable energies and aquaculture, reinforced by discussions on challenges and opportunities that lie in both sectors.
UK-based marine services company Stewart Marine has hired Dutch shipbuilder Neptune Marine to make a bespoke EuroCarrier 2611 vessel for offshore renewable energy services.
Spanish companies and research centers have joined forces to design a durable load prediction technology to optimize the anchoring systems of marine renewable energy devices.
