Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has shed more light on the challenges it successfully overcame during the construction of the world’s largest wave energy test rig that was completed earlier this summer.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been working with the U.S.-based marine energy company C-Power on the integration of its novel field data collection and control system in the SeaRAY device ahead of upcoming sea trials in Hawaii.
Danish container shipping giant Maersk revealed plans to add to its fleet a total of eight large ocean-going container vessels capable of being operated on carbon-neutral methanol.
Nagasaki University and Kyocera Corporation have jointly developed a smart monitoring buoy which exploits tidal currents to generate its own energy for continuous ocean data collection.
Germany’s government has announced a funding call for the construction and operation of a development platform for power-to-liquid (PtL) fuels.
Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has filed new plans for the construction of onshore elements for the project to the Planning Committee of the Isle of Wight.
Certification group Bureau Veritas has delivered the world’s first Approval in Principle (AiP) for an offshore floating solar solution to Dutch company SolarDuck, marking the beginning of a new era for this form of renewable energy.
The Danish Energy Agency has opened a technology-neutral tender for 2021, where solar cell systems, wind turbines, wave energy plants and hydropower plants can all compete for support.
California-based wave energy company CalWave Power Technologies will launch an open-water wave energy pilot off the pier of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in mid-September.
The first tidal turbine has been installed for trials at the Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS), located in Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts.
Australian company Wave Swell Energy has started exporting clean power from its UniWave200 wave energy device to electrical grid on King Island, offshore Tasmania.
German cruise shipbuilding group Meyer Werft revealed plans to establish a center of excellence (CoE) for special vessels in Rostock.
The 223kWp floating solar demonstrator, developed by the Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun, has celebrated two years in operation during which it successfully weathered through two typhoon seasons without any damage.
The Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has launched the M4 demonstrator project offshore Western Australia to showcase the region’s potential for using wave energy to power the local aquaculture industry.
