Built by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, the Wave Energy Converter SIMulator (WEC-Sim) has assisted close to 100 developers to improve their wave energy research and designs.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) is seeking in-kind and financial sponsors for the Waves to Water Prize, a competition that aims to accelerate the development of wave energy-powered desalination.
Canadian fuel cell supplier Ballard Power Systems has delivered two, 200 kilowatt (kW) fuell cell modules to Norwegian ferry operator Norled.
CorPower Ocean’s first commercial scale wave energy converter – C4 – is set to undergo intensive testing to prove its performance and survivability ahead of ocean deployment.
Verlume, a UK-based intelligent energy management and storage technologies specialist, has received a €3 million investment from a consortium led by Par Equity.
UK tidal energy project developer SBS has received approval to start the feasibility study for the Larantuka Strait tidal energy project in Indonesia.
Eco Wave Power has completed the cabling works required to connect the wave energy project, being developed in collaboration with EDF, to Israeli power grid.
Danish wave energy company Wavepiston has started with the installation operations for its wave-powered desalination system in Canary Islands.
UK-based tidal energy developer SBS has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (Mou) with state-owned enterprise Indonesia Power for the development of tidal energy projects in Larantuka and Boleng straits.
German-based company BELECTRIC has secured a contract to build a 16.8MWp floating solar power plant for S’energy and the large-scale water utility in Israel.
Under the auspices of the Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) project, a French start-up HelioRec worked together with Irish techno-financial analysis provider Exceedence on the assessment of levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and key cost drivers for the company’s floating solar technology.
Sustainable Marine has returned to work at the Grand Passage in the Bay of Fundy to connect its next-gen floating tidal energy platform PLAT-I to Nova Scotia’s power grid.
Oscilla Power is finalizing pre-deployment activities for its Triton-C wave energy device that will be deployed at U.S. Navy’s WETS site in Hawaii once the ongoing infrastructure upgrades are completed.
Norwegian company Ocean Oasis has secured €2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator to advance its wave energy-powered desalination technology.
