
The fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme has seen the first-ever tidal stream auction winners – Orbital Marine Power, SIMEC Atlantis Energy, and Magallanes Renovables – who will together generate over 40MW of clean power from tides for British homes and businesses.

The biggest ever round of UK government’s flagship renewables auction scheme has secured record capacity of almost 11GW of clean energy, to be delivered across a range of clean technologies, including offshore wind, solar, onshore wind, and for the first time ever – floating wind and tidal energy.

Finnish ship designer Deltamarin has been selected by Singapore-based dry bulk owner Berge Bulk to carry out the ship side basic design for installing BAR Technologies WindWings by Yara Marine Technologies onboard the 210,000 dwt bulk carrier Berge Olympus.

Sustainable Marine has formed a strategic partnership with Portugal’s blueOASIS to develop a range of ‘SIDS-appropriate’ marine renewable energy solutions that can help unlock the vast ocean energy potential of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has embarked on a market probing exercise into the techno-economic benefits of shared services and infrastructure for wind and wave energy generation technologies and projects.

Europe’s largest renewable energy generator Statkraft has issued a notice to proceed with the installation of additional floating solar units for the project in Albania, which also involves technology supplier Ocean Sun.

Neptune Energy has backed an industry initiative, aiming to remove methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 2030.

After deciding to buy MOL’s stake in two North Sea licences, Lime has inked a farm-down deal with Vår Energi for a portion of this stake.

Marine Energy Wales, the industry association for Welsh marine energy, has secured a new three-year grant from the Welsh government to support its work until 2025.

Vår Energi has awarded a long-term framework agreement to the Hammerfest-based Oss-nor for valve services on an FPSO in the Barents Sea.

UAE’s oil and gas giant Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) has wrapped up a major decommissioning project in the North Sea.

Améthyste, ArianeGroup, Cetim, HDF Energy, Rubis Terminal and Sofresid engineering have teamed up to develop a multi-service power barge ELEMANTA H2, designed to supply green electricity and hydrogen to large ships, reducing their polluting emissions by more than 80% during port calls.

French shipping major CMA CGM Group and compatriot utility company ENGIE have unveiled plans to co-invest in the Salamander project, known as the first industrial and commercial unit for second-generation biomethane production. As described, the Salamander project is the application on an industrial

Spanish tugboat operator Boluda Towage, part of Boluda Corporación Marítima, is expanding its cooperation with Dutch maritime technology company Onboard to reduce fuel consumption on a total of seventeen vessels by using data.