ORPC has selected Downeast Machine & Engineering to build the structural components for its second commercial RivGen power system device. The Portland-based company will install the device in Igiugig, Alaska, in 2021, as part of a multi-year project. The project gets support from the US DOE as wel
The new EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy must include a target of 100MW of ocean energy installed in Europe by 2025, Ocean Energy Europe reported. This would be enough to power 100,000 European homes a year, and would pave the way for installing 3GW by 2030 and 100GW by 2050. This target wou
Verdant Power has successfully integrated its three, fifth generation (Gen5), tidal power turbines onto its TriFrame mount in preparation for on-water delivery and deployment at the RITE Project site in New York City’s East River. Verdant earlier shipped the turbines by barge from its New Jersey mar
Inna Braverman, the founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power has been featured on the Fast Company’s 11th annual list of the Most Creative People in Business. Fast Company’ annual list of the Most Creative People in Business, honors an influential and diverse group of leaders from a vast range of global in
China’s GCL System Integration (GCL SI) and Norwegian company Ocean Sun joined together as strategic partners and introduced the floating PV system at SNEC PV Power Expo in Shanghai. The companies showcased the GCL M660GT module and released the test result showing its reliability for floating syste
Oscilla Power has secured $1.1 million from the US Department of Energy as part of the Phase II SBIR award. This award should help the Seattle-based company develop a novel underwater energy storage technology and investigate the best practice on connecting large-scale farms of ocean wave energy dev
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) will supply three next generation PLAT-I floating tidal energy systems, with a rated power output of 420kW each, to project entity Spicer Marine Energy. Spicer Marine Energy has signed a design build and operate (DBO) agreement with reconcept GmbH for the first phase
The integration of offshore energy systems, including oil and gas, renewables, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage, could deliver around 30 per cent of the UK’s total carbon reduction requirements needed to meet the 2050 net-zero target, the OGA said.
UK-based manufacturer of marine monitoring systems Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) have achieved an export milestone for global sales. Now exporting to over 100 countries, OSIL’s global customer base is ever expanding despite a challenging climate. The latest export country was Georgia wit
Simec Atlantis Energy has booked losses and a reduced consolidated cash position for the period ended 31 December 2019. Overall Group losses for the year 2019 were £35.4 million, versus loss of £24.1 million in 2018. The increase is primarily attributable to a £16.1 million non-cash disposal of seab
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has recently produced two new deliverables now openly shared with the marine energy sector. Deliverable D7.3 – Scenarios Input Data which describes the compilation of required data inputs for the various validation scenarios. A set of project data characterises each
OceanBased Perpetual Energy has experienced a delay in testing equipment deployment in the Florida Gulf Stream, due to the Hurricane Isaias. OceanBased Perpetual Energy, working with FAU’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center, was set to deploy a two-year sonar test equipment to find th
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have launched the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education portals for water power technologies. Water power is a flourishing segment of the renewable ene
Subsea protection specialist Tekmar said that James Ritchie-Bland has resigned as CEO and stepped down from the board. He plans to leave the business before the end of the current financial year. Alasdair Macdonald (Ally), currently non-executive chairman of the Group, has assumed the role of execut
