
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, as part of its Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fund, has awarded funding to four offshore wind and wave energy projects at UK institutions.

Swedish wave energy company Ocean Harvesting Technologies has completed the testing of a 1:10 scale InfinityWEC prototype.

The University of Plymouth and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have partnered up to establish a new research facility to accelerate the development and deployment of new offshore renewables products and services.

Uzmar Shipyard and Robert Allan have signed an agreement to design and build a new series of methanol-fuelled tugboats.

Using a digital twin of Orbital Marine’s O2 tidal turbine, the UK team of a US-based engineering firm Black & Veatch has found that increasing rotor diameter was key to reducing floating tidal energy costs.

Baker Hughes has launched a new subsea wellhead technology, the MS-2 Annulus Seal, expected to save substantial operational rig costs by helping lower overall wellhead installation costs due to reduced rig trips. The MS-2 Annulus Seal integrates with Baker Hughes’ existing MS-800 wellhead system and

NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the renewable energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, has started the construction of an 8.9MW floating solar installation in Millburn in New Jersey.

Danish company Wavepiston has completed the wave energy-powered desalination system set-up on the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) test platform, which is now ready for offshore works.

Carnegie Clean Energy has made headway on the development of the MoorPower project, with the design of CETO wave energy device spin-off – aimed at aquaculture sector – nearing completion.

In an op-ed piece, Richard Arnold, policy director at the UK Marine Energy Council discusses the recently published British Energy Security Strategy, and what it means for UK’s wave and tidal stream energy industries.

Launched by Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE), the marine buoy will undergo sea trials to test the equipment aimed at accelerating the development of marine renewables in Wales.

AW-Energy’s WaveRoller wave energy technology has been re-validated with the ‘Solar Impulse Efficient Solution’ label following an assessment performed by external independent experts and based on verified standards.

Carnegie Clean Energy has made significant progress on EuropeWave project as its starts building the equipment for wave tank testing of the new design for its CETO wave energy device.

Emica Bombas, a Biscayan industrial firm with more than a century of experience, has through its subsidiary Emica Solar developed and deployed a floating solar demonstrator plant based on design of a trimaran sailboat.