The UK government has launched a £11 million fund for energy entrepreneurs in an effort to drive forward the adoption of new clean technologies across all sectors of UK industry.
Danish engineering company Ramboll has announced it will provide multidisciplinary engineering expertise to the Equinor’s floating solar project planned for deployment offshore Norway.
Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun has appointed Nenad Keseric as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), while the former COO takes up a different role within the company.
German marine energy start-up SINN Power has deployed its Ocean Hybrid Platform (OHP) – designed to produce renewable energy by combining wind, wave and PV – in a demonstration project offshore Greece.
Ocean Sun and Fred. Olsen Renewables, together with project partners, have been awarded Horizon 2020 funding to test a full-scale floating solar power unit in the Atlantic Ocean.
Norwegian energy major Equinor, in collaboration with Saipem company Moss Maritime, plans to build and test a pilot floating solar plant off Frøya in Norway in the late summer of 2021.
AqualisBraemar has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in LOC Group with the purchase price consideration of USD 20.2 million (around EUR 16.5 million) cash consideration plus two million conditional warrants in AqualisBraemar. As reported in November, when the acquisition was announced, LOC Group’s
SuperNode and MaREI have launched a project that revolves around SuperNode’s concept of a single subsea superconductor connection for offshore renewable energy sources. According to MaREI, the technology would facilitate up to ten times faster development of offshore renewable energy projects global
EU-backed Blue-GIFT project has launched the third call for applications to test marine renewable energy (MRE) technologies in real sea environments at four test sites in the Atlantic Area region.
Deploying ocean energy at scale requires simpler, faster consenting processes that are informed by the latest environmental research, according to a new report launched by sectoral advisory group ETIP Ocean.
Offshore solar developer Oceans of Energy and The Seaweed Company have installed the world’s first combined offshore solar and seaweed farm in the Dutch North Sea as part of the demonstration project to showcase the sustainable multi-use of the marine space.
Ocean Energy Europe (OEE) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand existing cooperation and accelerate the commercialisation of ocean energy technologies.
European Union’s Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy, published on 19 November and targeting as much as 300 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2050, also outlines the goal of supporting green hydrogen production. In anticipation of the launch of the new Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, it is ever
As part of the IEC 62600 standard series, IEC Technical Committee 114 (IEC TC 114) has recently published a new part for the international standard to support the assessment of marine energy technologies.
