
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the fourth annual Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC), established to build the workforce to lead the development of marine energy industry.

Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy has started sea trials at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) as part of the scientific testing program for its Waveswing wave energy converter.

The first floater of the Banja floating solar project, developed by Statkraft and Ocean Sun, has restarted its commercial operation following an incident last summer.

DNV has revealed within its new analysis that the Ukraine crisis will not derail Europe’s energy transition, as it is expected to speed it up.

Sustainable Marine has recorded a first major milestone in the Canadian-German EvoFoil project after completing extreme load testing on a new tidal turbine blade, designed to withstand some of the most challenging tidal environments in the world.

ORPC has partnered up with Matanuska-Susitna Borough to test its RivGen hydrokinetic power system at the Upper Cook Inlet in Alaska.

Having played a pivotal role in the advancement of marine renewable energies in France, the SEM-REV test site is ready for infrastructure upgrades to respond to the needs of the growing offshore renewable energy sector.

EDP Renewables (EDPR) has secured grid connection deal as part of floating solar auction in Portugal, expected to enable the company to install up to 154MW of renewable energy capacity.

French tidal energy company EEL Energy is making final steps before launching its new commercial-scale 50kW tidal energy turbine for trials in the Port of Brest.

The multi-use wind and wave offshore platform prototype, dubbed Aurora, has been decommissioned after one year of sea trials as part of the EU-backed Blue Growth Farm project.

Both government and commercial efforts are needed to speed up the transition to clean energy, since, as Shell says, the transition is not just about reducing CO2 emissions, but it is rather a political balancing act that needs government-led policies.

The Marine and Hydrokinetic Toolkit (MHKiT) has been updated to include data on tidal and river energy resources and various other factors to enable developers make greater use of this open-source knowledge hub.

Nova Innovation has deployed a remote observation platform (ROP) in Petit Passage in Nova Scotia as part of its tidal energy array project.

SIMEC Atlantis Energy has secured a non-convertible loan of €2.95 million from Scottish Enterprise for the redeployment of MeyGen turbines.