The UK Parliament’s Welsh Affairs Committee has called for the development of a specific renewable energy strategy for Wales before the end of this year as failing to do so would put at risk the emerging economic opportunities offered by the shift to net-zero.
Finnish wave energy company Wello has deployed its Penguin wave energy device off the coast of Bilbao in the Basque Country.
Orbital Marine Power’s O2, deemed the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, has started grid-connected power generation offshore Orkney in Scotland. The turbine is also set to provide power for green hydrogen generation to facilitate decarbonisation of wider energy requirements.
RenewableUK’s new chief executive Dan McGrail has urged the UK Ministers to demonstrate greater ambition in the next round of auctions for contracts to generate clean electricity.
The Mutriku wave power plant, located in the Basque Country in northern Spain, has reached a ten-year milestone of uninterrupted clean power generation, becoming the longest operating commercial plant of its kind in the world.
A newcomer in the wave energy sector, founded only a year ago with a name that pretty much speaks for itself – Dutch Wave Power – is preparing to launch its scaled wave energy prototype device for real sea trials offshore The Hague in the Netherlands.
The UK-based tidal energy developer SIMEC Atlantis Energy has recorded a rise in the value of its shares after its main shareholder regained control of its stake in the company from the administrators.
Dublin-based information and communications technology (ICT) consultancy Mindseed has formed partnership with Ocean Energy to assess the potential benefits of using satellite-based services within the marine energy sector to address key operational challenges.
Scottish marine energy specialist QED Naval has opened a tender for work barge/pontoon that will be used as a support platform for the testing of its Subhub tidal energy solution.
Danish wave energy company Wavepiston has made new hires and appointments to its board of directors, along with securing patent approvals for its wave energy technology.
The partners in the EU-backed SafeWAVE project have started collecting environmental data around GEPS Techno’s wave and solar energy hybrid WAVEGEM at SEM-REV test site in France.
Danish wave energy company Wavepiston has completed the factory acceptance test (FAT) for its wave energy power generation and desalination units that will be deployed off Canary Islands.
Danish wave energy developer Crestwing has concluded the testing activities on its scale wave energy device model at Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI).
A key research, published by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University of St Andrews, has found that harbour porpoises exhibit localised evasion of an operational tidal turbine at the Meygen tidal energy site offshore Scotland.
