
Waterotor International Corp, a Canada-based hydrokinetic energy company, has unveiled a 20MW hybrid offshore renewable energy system that can simultaneously extract power from slow moving water and wind.

Norwegian company RW Power has installed its wave energy-powered seawater pumping device for a new set of trials at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN).

Scottish company Mocean Energy has secured €875,000 to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its wave energy technology and drive its adoption in offshore oil and gas sector.

The partners in the EU-backed IMPACT wave energy project have submitted the final report for the work package which supported the design of test rigs for wave energy converters by focusing on aspects of the electrical subsystems.

A tidal energy barrage scheme that could provide power for up to one million homes, proposed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA), might soon get a streamlined design that could bring the project a step closer to realization.

Italian energy giant Eni has joined the technical advisory board of the IMPACT project, a collaborative research and innovation scheme which aims to develop next-gen testing approaches for wave energy devices.

Among numerous energy transition initiatives, the ones that stood out the most this week were enacted by governments which truly do have the power to bring about the long-overdue upgrade to our energy landscape.

A proposal for £7 billion tidal lagoon project, to be developed by private sector off the coast of Conwy and Denbighshire in North Wales, has received unanimous ‘support in principle’ from Denbighshire County Council.

French engineering company Subsea Tech has developed a new solution for the inspection and cleaning of biofouling on ships.

The European Commission has approved the proposed merger between Finnish engineering majors Cargotec and Konecranes.

USAID has engaged ICEM to support Korean company Ingine in obtaining environmental permits for wave energy project in Vietnam.

EDP Renewables (EDPR) has met all regulatory conditions to acquire a 91% stake in Sunseap, the largest distributed solar power operator and the fourth largest solar power operator in Southeast Asia.

The first commercial-scale UMACK anchor has completed pre-deployment checks at CorPower Ocean’s facility in northern Portugal ahead of offshore installation as part of the HiWave-5 wave energy project.

Researchers from Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, have started exploring the interactions between different renewable energy sources to reduce the variability in electricity supplied to households as part of €45 million EU-SCORES project.