SgurrEnergy, a UK-based renewable energy consultancy, has been named as the Company of the Year at the British Renewable Energy Awards. The Company of the Year award is granted for the company that’s done the most in the past year to advance UK renewables. The British Renewable Energy Awards Gala Di
The European Commission has released the progress report on 2020 renewable energy targets showing that the EU is on track to meet its 20 percent renewable energy goals. With a projected share of 15.3 percent of renewable energy in 2014 in the gross final energy consumption, the EU and the vast major
Atmocean, a US wave energy developer, plans to retry the deployment of its wave energy system off Peru later next week. The demonstration system will produce fresh water from salt water without producing electricity due to inexpensive Peruvian energy market. Following the unsuccessful deployment att
The team behind the 100 MW Fair Head tidal energy project has announced that it has completed over 95 percent of the offshore survey work required to support the planning application for its seabed turbines. According to the project developer Fair Head Tidal Energy Park Ltd, a company comprised of D
Jennifer Webber, Renewable UK’s Director of External Affairs, has responded to the comment made by Oxford professor Dieter Helm on tidal lagoon projects. As announced earlier, in the paper ‘British energy policy – what happens next?’ Dieter Helm proposes to DECC to avoid supporting expensive project
The renewables associations are calling for EU policy makers to ensure secure and sustainable energy future in line with the EU’s long-term climate commitments. The European Council’s guidance from last year for 2030 targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency falls far short of the EU’s pote
Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has been selected in the Global Sustania 100, an annual international award that honours outstanding sustainability performance. Carnegie was selected for the Sustainia 100 shortlist from over 1.500 different sustainable projects from 151 countri
JBA Consulting, an environmental engineering company, is supporting Tidal Lagoon Power in the development of Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. JBA Consulting is supporting the project in the preparation of evidence for the discharge of the environmental Development Consent Order (DCO) and Marine Lic
The Solutions Project has made an infographic estimating how the energy mix of UK, Canada, and USA would look like if it consisted of 100 percent of renewable sources by 2050. Aside from estimating the percentage of different renewable sources that would add up to 100 percent of clean electricity ge
Regen SW, Renewable UK, and Ocean Energy Europe have welcomed the planning consent approval for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon given by the UK Secretary of State. According to RenewableUK, not only could Swansea Bay lagoon save over 236.000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year but the construction of
A consultation is being launched on a marine plan that will be used to guide development activities in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters, Scotland. The Marine Spatial Plan has been developed by a working group that includes Marine Scotland, Orkney Islands Council and Highland Council. It is an im
Existing satellites applications can be used to provide solutions to offshore renewable energy industry challenges, and therefore drive down the cost of energy from offshore wind, wave and tide, according to ORE Catapult. The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) and Satellite Applications (SatApps) Catap
The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) has issued a brief analysis of legal and regulatory challenges for the global development of ocean energy sector. The ‘Ocean energy: key legal issues and challenges’ identifies legal issues regarding the following themes o
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has stated it has over $2.3 bln available for investment into clean energy projects. CEFC also stated that it is looking forward to increased certainty over Australian renewable energy target (RET) scheme in order to enable commercially-viable, proven, uti
