A £3.5 million project to pilot new low-carbon technologies and energy-storage products has been announced by the Welsh Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) approved £650,000 of funding to complete work on a business case for the proposed Mersey tidal energy project at a meeting held on July 27.
ABPmer has expanded its metocean team with three experienced specialists as the company focuses on broadening its metocean consultancy service.
French tidal energy technology developer, Sabella, has commented on the implications of Naval Energies’ recent decision to withdraw from the tidal energy market, emphasising that this move should not be interpreted as the death knell for the industry in France.
The Scottish government has increased the grant funding for university research and innovation by £11.6 million in 2018/19, bringing the total to investment close to £300 million this year.
Update to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
MaRINET2 has opened registration period for the first set of a total of ten courses on offshore renewable energy to be delivered over the next three years.
The European Commission has outlined its plans for the EU 2021-2027 budget, proposing €8.65 billion to be invested in the energy sector through the Connecting Europe Facility, with one of the key points being promotion of Member States’ cooperation in integrating cross-border renewable energy projec
Tidal Lagoon Power’s CEO Mark Shorrock revealed on May 9 that the company had proposed a joint funding package for its Swansea Bay tidal lagoon to the UK government to ensure the tidal lagoon’s Contract for Difference (CfD) would be no greater than that offered for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power
Minesto has awarded J Mitchell Fishing with a contract for the provision of a vessel that will support scale testing of Minesto’s Deep Green tidal energy technology.
Bombora, an Australian wave energy developer is looking for a senior structural engineer and a senior control engineer, who will join the company’s European team at its recently established headquarters in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Fundación Chile and the Marine Energy Research & Innovation Centre (MERIC) is hosting a workshop in Chile today (May 8), bringing together leading international experts for the purpose of accelerating the growth of the country’s marine energy sector.
Navingo BV, the company behind MarineEnergy.biz and several other offshore and maritime-focused news sites, has opened the nomination period for Offshore Energy Awards 2018, which will be presented during the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2018 (OEEC) in Amsterdam this October.
Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s SR2000 tidal turbine hit a new milestone on May 7, when it reached 365 days (combined) of being deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) demonstration site in Orkney.