Marine planning and environmental consultancy, MarineSpace Ltd, has strengthened its team with two new appointments. Sam Strutton will be joining the Southampton office as a marine consultant and will support the team with physical processes, geophysics, data processing and GIS capabilities. Strutto
Martin & Ottaway has formed a new company, SurfWEC, that will develop wave energy converters (WECs) using patented features that are expected to increase energy recovery rates by an order of magnitude over legacy WEC systems. SurfWEC said it has broken through the barriers holding back wave energy r
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly has selected Francesco La Camera to be the next Director-General of IRENA. The appointment took place during the 9th Assembly of IRENA, the ultimate decision-making body of the agency. La Camera will take office on 4 April 2019, succeeding Adnan
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Canada has officially become a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Canada becomes the Agency’s 160th member to join the global intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the widespread adoption of renewable energy. IRENA’s ninth and largest Assembly has kicked off today wit
Gothenburg-based wave power company, Waves4Power (W4P), has appointed Jonas Kamf as president and CEO, effective January 01, 2019. Jonas previously held the position as CMO for the company since 2012. Jonas Kamf has extensive professional experience in sales, marketing, and business administration.
A new specialist marine services company, Seabed and Offshore Solutions (Seabed Solutions), has been established to address a gap in the seabed services market. The new business is based at OrbisEnergy in Lowestoft, the renewables hub for the East of England. The company is led by managing director
Abundance has raised £7 million for Scottish tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power (Orkney). Orbital Marine Power (formerly Scotrenewables Tidal Power) will use the funds raised to build its first production model Orbital O2 2MW floating tidal turbine. Bruce Davis, co-founder and joint managing
Orkney-based contractor Green Marine has recently supported offshore operations at the Meygen tidal project in the Pentland Firth. Simec Atlantis Energy successfully redeployed two of the 1.5MW tidal turbines in challenging winter conditions. The first two 1.5MW MeyGen turbines were returned to serv
Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) has opened its second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy. Funding for this Joint Call is provided by seven funding organisations from four countries (Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden), three
Two new Scottish wave energy devices will take to the sea in 2020 following the award of £7.7 million from Wave Energy Scotland. Both winning firms – Edinburgh-based Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy from Inverness – will use the funds to build half-scale wave energy machines and test them in real
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected $25 million in research projects for next-generation marine energy devices. Funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Technologies Office, these 12 innovative projects should reduce capital costs and accelerate the inn
Marine contractor Leask Marine were engaged by Inyanga Maritime to support Minesto UK’s Deep Green project in Holyhead Deep, off Wales. The works consisted of mooring handling operations and the recovery of the micro-grid system (MGS) buoy for winter storage and service maintenance at Holyhead port.
Black & Veatch UK director for Renewable Energy, Robbie Gibson, believes that asset optimisation will be as vital as new capacity as the renewables’ role grows. “People expect a reliable energy infrastructure. By 2030, for example, between a fifth and a third of the UK’s electricity is likely to com
