Marine Energy Test Area (META), Wales’ national test centre, has officially signed a lease with The Crown Estate, launching the opening of its open water test sites.
Bangkok-based power company B.Grimm Power has formed a joint venture with the state-owned energy company PTT to expand the LNG value chain.
The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) has set out plans to deploy a large cabled monitoring platform in the Minas Passage and share the collected data online as part of continuing efforts to improve environmental data from the Bay of Fundy.
Hamburg’s Senator for Economic Affairs sees great potential for the creation of a hydrogen corridor from Hamburg via Copenhagen to Oslo.
Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has shed more light on the challenges it successfully overcame during the construction of the world’s largest wave energy test rig that was completed earlier this summer.
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.
