SIMEC Atlantis Energy has appointed Ian Wakelin as an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee with immediate effect. Wakelin was previously CEO of Biffa, one of the UK’s largest waste management businesses and led the IPO of the business in 2016. He was previously co-f
Rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production, new research by the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde suggests. An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using el
UK-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has updated its Learning Hub with the addition of marine renewable energy module. With sustainable energy under discussion at the World Future Energy Summit earlier this month, this programme is for engineers who want to know more extracting energy from
The new Interreg NWE project Ocean DEMO, created to provide funding to developers of marine renewable technologies to test their products or services in real sea environments, has been officially launched on Monday. Ocean DEMO specifically targets multi-machine ocean energy installations. Ocean DEMO
SCHOTTEL has decided to merge its tidal energy businesses into Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), following the collaboration between SME, SCHOTTEL HYDRO and Black Rock Tidal Power to develop and demonstrate the PLAT-I floating tidal energy system, with deployments in Scotland and Canada. SCHOTTEL has
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MaRINET2 has launched its fifth free course on marine renewable energies, scheduled to happen from 22 to 24 April in Edinburgh, UK. The short course, entitled “Test and verification processes from tanks to the sea”, will be hosted by project partners FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility and Europe
The board of directors of Swedish wave energy company Seabased has decided to liquidate one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Seabased Industries AB.This primarily affects Seabased production facility in Lysekil, Sweden. The board has directed Oivind Magnussen (CEO) to take the appropriate actions t
Ocean Power Technologies has recently received $0.9 million of non-dilutive funding through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program. The Program enables companies to raise funding to finance their growth and operations and is administered
Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) has held a webinar on Tuesday, January 15, to provide information on its recently opened second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy. The second Joint Call was launched on January 8, and the webi
Leask Marine’s fabrication workshop has taken delivery of two of the largest tubular sections that they have ever received for the construction of the very first tidal platform ever to be built in Orkney. Leask Marine were awarded the contract for the manufacturing and supply contract of a Surface F
Offshore Marine Systems is seeking to raise £4 million in equity funding, for the construction and deployment of a full scale 6 Megawatt Wave Energy Converter (W.E.C.) The W.E.C. is capable to operate far offshore in hostile seas and oceans, generating electrical power for shore based receivers on t
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) was awarded $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support a project that focuses on advancing marine energy devices. During the three-year innovative project, the team of researchers and en
Gothenburg-based mooring solutions provider Moorlink, a Vryhof company, has secured a renewables contract in Hawaii, where its swivels are capable of outstanding performance in extreme conditions. According to Vryhof, the new deal highlights Moorlink’s commitment to the emerging renewables marine en
