Tokyo-based firm e5 Lab Inc. and shipbuilder Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have teamed up to design “ROBOSHIP”, a standard hybrid-electric propulsion vessel, for a 499-tonne biomass fuel carrier being built by Honda Heavy Industries.
French start-up Guinard Energies has unveiled plans to deploy a hydrokinetic turbine in the river Marne that will power the newly-established centre for environmental protection and preservation of biodiversity.
A containership owned by South Korean shipping company HMM has been bunkered with sustainable marine bio-heavy oil, starting an offshore empirical test. The ship in question is the 13,154 TEU Hyundai Dream. The boxship was refuelled with biofuel blends during bunkering at the Port of Busan on 29 Nov
The biggest ever round of the UK government’s renewable energy support scheme opened on Monday, 13 December. Renewable energy projects across Great Britain can now bid for funding in the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which is aiming to secure 12 GW of electricity capacit
Although the year draws to a close and embraces the holiday spirit, the global energy transition shows no signs of slowing down. In the week behind us, we witnessed that governments spare no expense to support clean energy projects and step up the energy transition game.
Yara Birkeland, the world’s first autonomous and fully electric containership, will soon commence commercial operations while beginning a two-year test period, prior to entering full autonomous operation on a route off the coast of Norway.
Involving major offshore industry names – like DEME, Jan de Nul, and Tractebel – the MPVAqua research project is moving forward with the development of offshore floating solar concept, designed to withstand rough environment of the Belgian North Sea.
Irish developer of hydrokinetic solutions GKinetic Energy has delivered its optimised 12kW hydrokinetic device to Strangford Lough, where it will be deployed in combination with energy storage unit.
Danish container shipping giant Maersk has presented the design of its next-generation large container vessels powered by carbon-neutral methanol.
Tekmar Group and Covestro have set up a long-term collaboration to explore alternative and more sustainable materials for subsea cable protection systems (CPS).
SIMEC Atlantis Energy is preparing to start with the assembly and testing phase of its novel variable pitch system for tidal energy turbines, developed as part of a collaborative EU-backed project.
Major Japanese shipbuilding, marine engineering, and service company, Imabari Shipbuilding, has entered into a capital and business alliance with the compatriot startup, PowerX, to jointly develop a prototype automated Power Transfer Vessel. The Power Transfer Vessel, Power ARK 100, is a 100 TEU tri
Backed by the Government of the Netherlands, nine Dutch research institutes and test facilities have joined forces to accelerate the research into offshore renewable energy.
Two tidal energy projects, led by major companies Nova Innovation and Magallanes Tidal Energy, have been selected to receive a share of £116 million to drive forward green innovation in the UK.
