Carnegie recently hosted Enel Green Power for a week of knowledge sharing and collaboration in Western Australia. As previously announced, EGP is collaborating with Carnegie on the development of the CETO wave energy technology through a collaboration agreement signed last year. Under the agreement,
Sustainable Marine Energy’s PLAT-I tidal energy platform has generated first power from the tidal currents of Grand Passage in Digby County, Nova Scotia on Saturday. Following a period of commissioning and testing environmental monitoring equipment, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has satisfied the
The Expressions of Interest for the Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy is nearing its deadline. The deadline for the Expressions of Interest is tomorrow – Friday, March 01, 2019. The OCE
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) will support Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM) to develop the first wave and tidal test centre for marine energy converters (MECs) in China. For the past seven years EMEC have worked alongside QNLM and Ocean University
Rotech Subsea has signed a frame agreement to become excavation provider for DeepOcean RECONNECT. DeepOcean has established RECONNECT to provide cable repair service – as well as providing periodic inspection and monitoring of cable integrity – to reduce the likelihood, time and cost associated with
Minesto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to explore the possibilities of supplying the Eastern Caribbean with renewable ocean energy produced by Minesto’s technology. Minesto and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda have agreed to conduct a j
The EU-funded FORESEA (Funding Ocean Energy through Strategic European Action) programme has awarded recommendations for support to five offshore renewable energy projects under its final call. The projects have been selected due to their high readiness level for real sea testing within the year. Fi
Eco Wave Power’s founder Inna Braverman has been selected as the winner of the Women4Climate Tech Challenge, organized by C40 Cities in Paris. The Women4Climate Tech Challenge is an international contest open to women designing an innovative, climate-focused tech solutions. Ten solutions of women fr
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Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) has launched the Ocean Energy Scale Up Alliance (OESA) project. According to the company’s social media update, the OESA project, which will scale-up five ocean energy pilots, has kicked off on Thursday. OESA is coordinated by DMEC and has received funding to suppor
The BioFREE (Biofouling in Renewable Energy Environments) project has started data collection from biofouling monitoring systems deployed across international marine renewable energy (MRE) test centres. A webinar will be hosted by IEA Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Annex IV to discuss current environmen
Marine-i, the EU funded programme set up to boost marine innovation in Cornwall, has made a grant award to specialist marine technology company, Submarine Technology Ltd (STL). Based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, STL have opened a new office in Penryn, Cornwall, to focus on designing and building t
26 European islands have officially launched their clean energy transition with the support of the European Commission’s Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat. In a first phase, 6 islands, the Aran Islands (Ireland), the Cres-Lošinj archipelago (Croatia), Sifnos (Greece), Culatra (Portugal), Salin
QED Naval recently returned to Subhub following the completion of the tow to tidy things up and secure Subhub for the initial ballast system and flow augmentation trials. The moorings were reset so that Subhub now aligns to flow on the flood and ebb tides where flow speeds of up to 1m/s are experien
