Happy New Year from Offshore Energy team
Dutch umbrella investment fund Meewind has joined Oceans of Energy’s project as an observer to provide guidance from the side of potential financial investor on mitigating the risks of building and operating an offshore solar installation.
The energy transition process is moving ahead with each passing day as witnessed in a week behind us with a lot of announcements highlighting the net-zero future. A good example of the will to change comes from CNOOC Petroleum Europe and Flotation Energy, currently involved in a project which would
French tidal energy company Sabella has performed ‘successful’ tests on the next generation tidal turbine blades as part of the RealTide project.
Swedish-Israeli wave energy developer Eco Wave Power has selected Vastor Securities as a certified adviser for the company.
Welsh-based Bombora Wave Power has launched a tender seeking a contractor for the loadout of its mWave wave energy device.
Penguin wave energy converter, developed by the Finnish company Wello, has been towed to harbour Vizcaya for inspection, maintenance and repairs.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has powered down its 500kW AR500 tidal turbine after almost one full year of generating clean renewable energy in the Naru Strait in Japan.
Dutch maritime giant Van Oord has signed a partnership agreement with floating solar specialist HelioRec to investigate the use of floating solar as power source for charging its unmanned survey vessels.
The direction of the global transition to clean energy is getting more refined each week, as more of the world’s energy majors start investing in innovation and collaboration to shift energy production away from GHG-heavy sources.
Wave energy parks, equipped with Symphony Wave Power devices, could emerge in the North Sea in 2023, according to the company’s founder Fred Gardner.
Welcoming the UK government’s plans to invest in tidal energy industry, certification and advisory company Bureau Veritas has suggested that tidal stream electricity has the potential to become one of the most viable and reliable sources of renewable energy in the world.
Research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found that marine energy can provide important benefits to power grids, while complementing less predictable renewable energy generation.
Orkney-based marine specialist Leask Marine has provided its services to tidal developer HydroQuest for a major decommissioning project in France.
