The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made available up to $27 million in federal funding for research and development projects to convert energy from ocean waves into carbon-free electricity.
Dutch tidal energy company SeaQurrent has made progress with the preparation of the test site offshore the island of Ameland in the Wadden Sea ahead of the upcoming demonstration of its full-scale TidalKite device.
Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has improved power production performance through upgrades and modifications of its DG100 tidal kite system, as key aspects of test operations and electricity production get third-party verified by DNV.
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has selected three companies to share nearly £1.8 million to demonstrate their quick connection systems which are expected to bring down the cost of wave energy.
The €20 million EuropeWave project has invited wave energy developers to apply for funding via its innovative pre-commercial procurement (PCP) programme.
Dutch tidal energy company Tocardo and U.S.-based marine energy developer C-Power have made it to the Greenbackers Investment Capital’s final list of technology start-ups to take part in an innovative six-month international investment programme.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy, the developer of the MeyGen tidal energy project, has reduced the financial losses for 2020 – the year in which MeyGen tidal array exported over 37GWh of clean power to the UK grid, breaking every record for tidal energy production set so far.
One of the largest funding programmes of the European Union, launched to accelerate the economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, has provided a substantial subsidy for the development of an offshore floating solar farm off the coast of The Hague in the Netherlands.
Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received approval in principle from Norway-based classification society DNV for the design of fuel cell-powered LNG carrier.
The Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE) and ORE Catapult have launched an innovation challenge to find solutions for tracking underwater species behaviour and movements in and around tidal stream turbines.
Danish Shipping, a focal point for Denmark’s shipping community, has welcomed the government’s move to support the ambitious countrywide CO2 storage initiative which is expected to create immense possibilities for domestic transport companies.
Innosea has been appointed to a consortium led by Suntrace, tasked with the development and tender support of a marine floating solar photovoltaics project (FPV) in the Maldives.
Dutch tidal energy company Tocardo has received hydraulic power packs (H-boxes) from Hydroton Engineering that will form part of the hydraulic brake system for T-1 tidal turbines on Subhub platform.
Clean technology company Silverstream Technologies has fitted its air lubrication technology on the Vale-chartered newbuild ore carrier Sea Victoria. The installation is the first time that any air lubrication technology has been deployed on a very large ore carrier (VLOC), Silverstream said. Coming
