
U.S.-headquartered Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has signed a reseller agreement with Geos Telecom, a maritime communication and navigation solutions provider in Costa Rica.

Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, UK’s technology innovation and research center for offshore renewables, has appointed a new Non-Executive Director, Maida Zahirovic.

Renewable energy business WaveX has received a statement of feasibility from OWC Australia & New Zealand, a part of energy and marine consultancy ABL Group, for its wave-powered generator technology.

The Marine Energy Technologies Acceleration Act, legislation that would invest $1 billion to propel marine energy toward full-scale commercialization, has been introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Swedish-Israeli wave energy developer Eco Wave Power has launched its first MW-scale wave energy project in Porto, Portugal.

France-based start-up HelioRec and Centrale Nantes, a component institution of the Nantes University, have finished wave tank testing of the W200CM floating solar model.

Tidal energy could contribute to decarbonizing Alaska’s Railbelt by 2035 and facilitate the production of clean fuels like hydrogen, growing the state’s economy, a recent U.S. study has shown.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (U.S. DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has disclosed an intent to provide up to $112.5 million to advance the commercial readiness of wave energy technologies through open water testing and system validation.

Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has granted £400,000 (approximately $514k) to be shared between two projects in the second round of the Direct Generation Concept Design Competition.

According to PMR, the assembly would be completed this year, followed by reinstallation, and finally the export of clean energy to the Goto Islands, Japan.

The Marine Energy Council (MEC) welcomed the increase, which is expected to contract an additional 25 MW of tidal stream capacity to the UK’s deployment pipeline.

The trials, conducted from late March to late May, tested the system’s capabilities in real-sea conditions.

This partnership is set to support early site development, speeding up marine energy deployment and creating a pipeline of projects for future renewable auctions.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has revealed the 15 winning teams in Phase II of the American-Made Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP).