A research team in the SFI MaREI Centre at NUI Galway has made a significant contribution to technology development in the marine energy sector, by delivering three full-scale structural testing programmes to de-risk blade components to allow for commercial and operational trials in Alaska and Scotl
CorPower Ocean and OPS Composite Solutions have received close to €500,000 from EEA Grants for a collaborative project looking to boost the performance and slash costs for wave energy technology.
The AR500 tidal energy generation system, designed and built by Simec Atlantis Energy, has been installed in the Naru Strait, off Japan’s Goto Island chain.
Marine Energy Test Area (META), Wales’ national marine test centre, has obtained the marine license for the second phase of the project from Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has secured support from the EU-funded MaRINET2 project to test its hybrid floating wind and wave platform at IHCantabria facilities in Spain.
In collaboration with strong international players, the Norwegian wave energy developer Waveco has advanced the development of the full-scale Subwave wave energy prototype which could be ready for deployment by the end of the year.
Edinburgh-based start-up Mocean Energy has made great progress on the construction of its Blue X wave energy device which is nearing completion ahead of spring deployment in Orkney waters.
German marine energy start-up SINN Power has deployed its Ocean Hybrid Platform (OHP) – designed to produce renewable energy by combining wind, wave and PV – in a demonstration project offshore Greece.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is looking to contract a marine energy technology developer to act as an external advisor to the Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA).
Energy sector service provider Global Energy Group has appointed former Simec Atlantis head Tim Cornelius to the role of group chief executive. Cornelius will be responsible for group financial performance, group strategy as well as transition management from a hydrocarbon to a low-carbon business f
Dutch tidal energy developer SeaQurrent has received support from Autodesk through its Technology Impact Program to advance the design of its TidalKite tidal power system.
Irish hydrokinetic turbine developer GKinetic Energy has expanded its team further with a new hire of a mechanical design engineer, Gary Brennan. Brennan previously operated his own Architectural Technology service for 8 years specialising in draughting, surveying & certification and developing exte
Floating Power Plant (FPP) and partners Lundin Energy Norway, NOV-APL, Semco Maritime, Cefront Technologies and Aalborg University have completed a project aimed at using floating wind and wave power to support an offshore oil and gas facility. According to FPP, the project shows that using renewabl
Edinburgh-based marine energy specialist QED Naval has launched the crowdfunding campaign on the Seedrs platform.
