The Pathway Program has released a new report incorporating international expertise on passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in high tidal flow environments. The report was compiled following an online workshop in April which brought together over 40 PAM experts from Canada, Denmark, UK and USA. The Pat
Fife fabrication firm AJS Production has returned to work to complete Mocean Energy’s Blue Star wave energy prototype. AJS has split its team to comply with Covid-19 rules and advance the fabrication of the 20-metre long WEC. Mocean will deploy the half-scale device at EMEC in Orkney for sea trials
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon developers have called on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step in and overrule Whitehall officials who are preventing work starting on site. The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has so far refused to sign off a decommissioning plan. Swansea
The Prefecture de la Manche has approved the transfer of the lease to develop a 12MW tidal power project in Raz Blanchard from Engie to Normandie Hydroliennes. Normandie Hydroliennes – the marine energy development company set up between Simec Atlantis and its partners. They include the Development
Floating Power Plant (FPP) has secured the formal approval to access the PLOCAN test facility in Gran Canaria with its hybrid floating wind and wave energy device. The company intends to deploy a commercial-scale version of its P80 wind-wave energy platform at PLOCAN. According to FPP, this approval
Tekmar Group has appointed Steven Rossiter to the role of chief technology officer (CTO). Rossiter was the founder and managing director of Agiletek Engineering. The newly created position of CTO underlines Tekmar’s commitment to its technology-driven goals. It will draw on Rossiter’s skills in clou
Assessing the environmental effects of marine energy is an important step in the permitting process before deploying devices. To help reduce potential impacts, scientists are researching the acoustic impacts to fish and marine mammals and the effect of electromagnetic fields from power cables and de
Ocean energy devices and pilot farms should be demonstrated in real-sea conditions for several years to accelerate large-scale deployment, according to ETIP Ocean’s new ‘Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA)’, published today. This is just one of the priorities that the report identifies for
Qair International (formerly Quadran) is developing an offshore floating solar power plant in Seychelles. The 5MW plant will be the first project led by an independent power producer (IPP) in Seychelles. The project, initially set to commence in July, will be built on a lagoon on Mahé, the main isla
Clean energy solutions provider, H2Tec has won a contract to perform key upgrades to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)’s hydrogen production plant in Orkney. Logan Energy‘s subsidiary work is part of the €11.7 million project, Integrating Tidal Energy into the European Grid (ITEG). The projec
France Energies Marines has appointed Jean‐Philippe Pagot as president to the head of the Institute for Energy Transition (ITE). Jean‐Philippe Pagot is director of Marine Environment at EDF Renouvelables. He has been with the Institute since creation in 2012. Pagot accepted the challenge of mobilizi
The marine renewable energy (MRE) community is stepping it up several notches thanks to recently launched open-source software called the Marine and Hydrokinetic Toolkit (MHKiT). Offering previously unavailable tools for data processing and handling, the searchable online software discovery platform
Collaborative Initiative for Aquaculture Robotic Systems – CIARS has been concluded, WavEC Offshore Renewables informed. CIARS is a bilateral €13.000 EEA grant funded project that gathered WavEC, as coordinator, and partner Sintef Ocean with the aim to bring together the main players in development
UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has issued a call to fund research grant proposals in Marine Wave energy. According to EPSRC, the funding available for this call is approximately £4.5 million. EPSRC anticipates that proposals may vary in scale and scope depending on t
