The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and directed by the Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET), has opened its 15th request for technical support (RFTS). Through the latest call, TEAMER is offering marine energy te
The Marine Energy All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been relaunched under the new UK Parliament, with Orkney and Shetland member of parliament (MP) Alistair Carmichael as chair. Carmichael is joined by Llinos Medi MP, Harriet Cross MP, and Torcuil Crichton MP as officers, representing a cros
The Australian Government has awarded AU$2.4 million (around $1.6M) to renewable energy business WaveX to drive its wave energy technology, as a part of a broader AU$55 million fund aimed at driving innovation across key sectors in Australia. The funding was unveiled by Minister for Industry and Sci
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Ocean Energy (ETIP Ocean) has highlighted the need to direct innovation efforts toward enabling ocean energy farms to achieve technological and industrial breakthroughs by 2030. According to Ocean Energy Europe (OEE), the newly-released ‘Strategic
Brussles-based European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA) has applied its expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA) and circularity of composite materials to tidal turbine blades, as part of the EU-funded MAXblade project’s efforts to scale tidal energy generation and cut costs. EuCIA is keen o
Swedish company CorPower Ocean has secured €32 million in Series B1 funding to advance the commercialization of its wave energy technology, marking a step towards making wave power a mainstream, bankable energy source. This latest investment round, the largest single investment into CorPower’s techn
Inyanga Marine Energy Group has taken control of the D10 tidal turbine, the first grid-connected tidal turbine in France, securing permission to operate the facility in the Fromveur Passage, off the coast of Brittany, until August 2028. The turbine, which delivers clean energy to the island of Usha
U.S.-based Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has secured a partnership with industrial service provider 3B General Trading & Contracting to advance Kuwait’s offshore energy and maritime projects. The agreement paves the way for the deployment of OPT’s wave adaptive modular vessels (WAM-Vs), unmanned s
The UK-based marine technology consultant Cape Horn Engineering has completed the first validation of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis for Spiralis Energy’s Axial Skelter tidal test rig, delivering a match to experimental data with less than 1.5% deviation. Following nearly a year of
Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto has assigned consulting company Ernst & Young (EY) to support the development of the 10 MW Hestfjord Dragon Farm in the Faroe Islands, aimed at scaling tidal energy solutions as part of a broader plan to deploy 200 MW in tidal energy capacity. The Hestfjord Dra
Finland-based AW-Energy’s WaveRoller has secured the approval of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) to deploy the ocean energy pilot project in Nambia. According to Kaoko Green Energy Solutions, the approval was granted by Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism, which enable
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has scheduled subsea works at the MeyGen Tidal Array in Scotland’s Pentland Firth for late October, aiming to install a tidal turbine and recover monitoring equipment. SIMEC Atlantis Energy is set to carry out subsea operations at its MeyGen Tidal Array site in Scotland’s Pentl
CGEN Engineering, a new spinout company from the University of Edinburgh, has launched a modular generator system, designed to cut offshore renewables’ levelized energy cost (LCOE) by 10% to 15%. According to the University of Edinburgh, the lightweight, stackable system, suited for wave, tidal, an
UK-based tidal energy company Proteus Marine Renewables (PMR) has joined the American Tidal Energy Project to help unlock Alaska’s tidal power potential, with the project receiving $3 million in U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) funding to evaluate Ocean Renewable Energy’s (ORPC’s) Cook Inlet sit
