U.S.-headquartered Greensea Systems has demonstrated untethered autonomous operation of commercially available remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Using a commercially available Defender ROV from VideoRay, outfitted with batteries, an acoustic modem, and the new OPENSEA Edge system, Greensea demonstr
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and US WEC Energy Group have tested the capabilities of a Wärtsilä engine running on 25 vol% hydrogen-blended fuel, and throughout the testing period, the Wärtsilä engine continued to supply power to the grid. According to Wärtsilä, it is the largest commercially op
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has opened applications for the fifth annual Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC), which aims to prepare the future workforce for the marine energy industry.
CRP Subsea has secured a contract to deliver three solutions for a shallow water pipeline replacement project in Southeast Asia. The pipeline replacement project is taking place at existing fields in the South China Sea offshore Brunei and involves installing new pipes along the seabed and up to the
The largest European center for sea trials entirely dedicated to floating wind power and marine renewable energies called the OPEN-C Foundation has been set up in France by major industry players.
The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has launched a new competition for developers investigating novel technologies for harnessing and converting the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.
Japanese shipping major Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) and compatriot electric utility Electric Power Development (J-POWER) have decided to install the Seawing, an automated kite system using wind power, on a coal carrier. The vessel in question is Corona Citrus, an 88,000 DWT-type special coal carr
Scottish company Orbital Marine Power has secured an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland for a new tidal energy project in the Westray Firth.
UK-based shipping company Carisbrooke Shipping has partnered up with Grafmarine, a compatriot manufacturer of modular clean energy generation, storage, and power management solutions, to pilot solar energy cells on a Carisbrooke vessel. Grafmarine’s NanoDeck AI Solar tile management solution is a mo
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced £750,000 (€850,000) for research projects focusing on deployment of tidal lagoon technology as part of Tidal Lagoon Challenge.
A consortium of global shipping organisations and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) have received approval in principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the US ship certification agency, to use a carbon capture system onboard an oil tanker.
Norway-based ballast water treatment specialist Optimarin is establishing a manufacturing base in China to boost the availability of its ballast water treatment system (BWTS) for the Asian shipbuilding market as it also targets further retrofits of the existing fleet.
Scottish company Nova Innovation has installed its tidal energy turbine at the Étel Estuary, bringing its turbines to France for the first time.
A collaborative project dubbed OPTILE has been launched in France with the aim of decarbonizing the supply of electricity to island grids using offshore renewable energy.
