The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been working with the U.S.-based marine energy company C-Power on the integration of its novel field data collection and control system in the SeaRAY device ahead of upcoming sea trials in Hawaii.
Germany-based port and transport logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) revealed it would be actively involved in the newly founded H2Global foundation to successfully implement its hydrogen technology projects.
U.K.-based Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has formed its first regional cooperation committee, as the use of LNG as ship fuel rises in the Asia Pacific.
Ship management and maritime service provider Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has formed a strategic joint venture with Khobar-based oil service company Spectrum Group to improve its services in Saudi Arabia.
Nagasaki University and Kyocera Corporation have jointly developed a smart monitoring buoy which exploits tidal currents to generate its own energy for continuous ocean data collection.
Certification group Bureau Veritas has delivered the world’s first Approval in Principle (AiP) for an offshore floating solar solution to Dutch company SolarDuck, marking the beginning of a new era for this form of renewable energy.
The Danish Energy Agency has opened a technology-neutral tender for 2021, where solar cell systems, wind turbines, wave energy plants and hydropower plants can all compete for support.
California-based wave energy company CalWave Power Technologies will launch an open-water wave energy pilot off the pier of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in mid-September.
The first tidal turbine has been installed for trials at the Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS), located in Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts.
Australian company Wave Swell Energy has started exporting clean power from its UniWave200 wave energy device to electrical grid on King Island, offshore Tasmania.
The 223kWp floating solar demonstrator, developed by the Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun, has celebrated two years in operation during which it successfully weathered through two typhoon seasons without any damage.
The Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has launched the M4 demonstrator project offshore Western Australia to showcase the region’s potential for using wave energy to power the local aquaculture industry.
Eco Wave Power has through its Portuguese subsidiary secured an installation and grid connection permit for a 1MW wave energy pilot project planned for the Barra do Douro breakwater in Porto.
Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun has conducted an analysis into root cause of the failure of its floating solar unit that was installed in Albania, which pointed towards the weather conditions as the main reason for the incident.
