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.
Eco Wave Power has through its Portuguese subsidiary secured an installation and grid connection permit for a 1MW wave energy pilot project planned for the Barra do Douro breakwater in Porto.
Brazil’s Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal in São Luís received today the first ore operator in the world to use the air lubrication technology, which consists of a rigid layer of air bubbles produced artificially underneath the ship’s hull.
Norwegian floating solar specialist Ocean Sun has conducted an analysis into root cause of the failure of its floating solar unit that was installed in Albania, which pointed towards the weather conditions as the main reason for the incident.
The 2022 Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize competitors will test their wave energy-harvesting ocean observing prototypes in the SPLASH Contest next autumn on the Olympic Peninsula, offshore Washington.
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has secured approval in principle (AiP) from Norwegian classification society DNV for the basic design of ammonia fuel-ready very large crude carrier (VLCC).
Washington-based boat builder All American Marine (AAM) and shipowner SWITCH Maritime have launched and started operational trials of Sea Change, a 70-foot, 75-passenger zero-emissions, hydrogen fuel cell-powered, electric-drive ferry that will operate in the California Bay Area.
