
Welsh company Marine Power Systems (MPS) has joined Quoceant’s Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) project to accelerate the development of Q-Connect technology into the floating offshore wind market.

Inyanga Marine Energy Group and Verdant Morlais Ltd (VML) have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver a 4.9 MW tidal stream energy project at Morlais in Wales.

Scottish engineering consultancy Quoceant has received an IECRE Feasibility Statement for the quick connection system for marine renewable energy applications from Lloyd’s Register, a renewable energy certification body (RECB).

A study led by European universities has shown that wave energy could rival the cost-effectiveness of offshore wind by the 2030s at favorable locations.

Swedish company Ocean Harvesting Technologies is developing the sixth generation of its wave energy converter InfinityWEC, including the implementation and evaluation of a moment-based model predictive control (MPC) in its simulation model.

The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco) is to test its wave energy converter (WEC) in the Delta Flume at Deltares.

Minesto’s utility-scale tidal energy kite, Dragon 12, is undergoing service and inspection, following the four months of grid-connected operation in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands.

Two Scottish companies, Ocean Kinetics and Green Marine (UK), have made a joint venture (JV) partnership to decommission OpenHydro’s tidal energy platform in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Danish company Wavepiston has finished another round of installation of a full-scale energy collector on the Wavepiston string off the coast of Gran Canaria, Spain.

Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto, and Faroese company Sev, have renewed and updated the power purchase agreement (PPA).

After painting the ZOEX unit and adding the buoyancy floats, it is set to go to Port of Aberdeen South Harbour for wet trials.

Danish company Wavepiston has commenced the SHY project (Seawater Hydraulic PTO using dynamic passive controller for wave energy converters), with consortium members all over Europe that joined together at Kronborg Slot in Elsinore, Denmark.

London-based start-up tidal energy developer Spiralis Energy has applied for permits to test a surface tidal energy generator in the waters of Alderney, which is a part of Bailiwick of Guernsey.

RenewableUK Cymru is urging the next UK Government to set technology-specific targets to support the goal of meeting 100% of electricity demand from renewable sources by 2035.