The 5th annual Marine Energy Event, organized in cooperation with the Dutch Energy from Water Association (EWA) and Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC), will take place in Amsterdam RAI during Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference on 8 & 9 October 2019. This event will delve into how Europe is pos
Wello’s Penguin wave energy converter – WEC2 has arrived in Orkney, Scotland where it awaits deployment. The WEC2 arrived from Tallinn shipyard to Orkney, where it will be installed by the coast. The Penguin WEC2 is Wello’s first full-scale commercially ready wave energy converter. Wello has previou
Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Mines has issued a licence to Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Canada for a tidal electricity project. The 1.26-megawatt marine renewable energy licence allows the company to continue to develop its project in a berth at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy
The Scottish Green Energy Awards – the UK’s largest celebration of renewables – open today (July 24), with nominations invited for 11 categories. The awards, now in its 17th year, is open to all renewable energy technologies, from wind, hydro and solar to wave, low-carbon heat and more. Categories t
Managing director of the Irish tidal energy developer GKinetic, Vincent Mc Cormack, was welcomed back to the IFREMER testing facility in France ahead of scheduled trials in September this year. The testing in the IFREMER tank has been funded through the MaRINET2 programme. The results of this testin
French tidal and ocean stream turbine developer Sabella has appointed Benoît Bazire as chairman of board of directors. Jean François Daviau president and founder of Sabella, has decided to leave his position as head of the company. He remains a shareholder and board member of Sabella. To continue it
Simon Hart MP visited Bombora for an update on Bombora’s innovative mWave Pembroke demonstration project being conducted at Pembroke Dock. The MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire was able to examine the test tank which supplies critical test data for the mWave engineering design team. He
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has reported net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019 of $2.5 million, compared to a net loss of $3.3 million for the prior-year period. The decrease in net loss was mainly attributable to lower cost of revenue as a result of timing on new contracts and the decre
A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has installed a new turbine in Okinawa that can reportedly harness six times more energy than earlier models. The “ducted” wave energy converter (WEC) marks the latest phase in research and development from the OI
Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has recently awarded contracts for the delivery of Onshore Control Station as part of its 500kW tidal power plant in form of a “flying” kite tethered to the sea bottom. The 100kW Kite (Power generator) will be connected to the Faroe Islands Grid at 0,4kV (Poin
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The Igiugig Village Council (IVC) and ORPC have officially launched ORPC’s commercial RivGen Power System in Alaska on Tuesday. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and a crowd of over 60 people gathered at Lake Iliamna and the Kvichak River in Igiugig for the unveiling of ORPC’s first commercial device, w
SEA-TITAN, a European Commission H2020 Programme funded project, will hold a workshop during ETWEC 2019, in Napoli, Italy on September 04, 2019. The project is aimed at making a step change in the wave energy sector by designing, building, testing and validating a crosscutting and innovative Direct
The project will provide solutions for small island renewable energy, water, and aquaculture
