The report summarizes the state of the science of interactions and effects of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices on the marine environment, the animals that live there, and the habitats that support them.
Resolute Marine Ltd (RML), the Irish subsidiary of US-based wave energy developer Resolute Marine Energy, won the ‘EIP Water got talents award’ at the European Innovation Platform for Water conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. A panel of judges from world-class water companies and investment firms
EMO Marine Technologies has been awarded a contract with OpenHydro for the Cape Sharp Tidal project. EMO Marine Technologies has designed and developed a turnkey monitoring system for the turbine deployment and recovery platform. Its monitoring system converts underwater video and sensor data stream
Flemish wave energy developer Laminaria has joined forces with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Innosea, Ghent University, and TTI Testing to support the development of its wave energy converter (WEC). The main focus of the project is to prove the survivability of the Laminaria WEC, which i
Schottel Hydro will deliver 16 Schottel Instream Turbines (SIT) with a capacity of 62 kW each to the Isle of Wight-based enigneering company Sustainable Marine Energy (SME). The turbines will be delivered over the course of two years. The scope of supply also includes the power electrics for the tur
SmartBay Ireland has achieved international accreditation for health, safety, quality and environmental management. SmartBay was accredited with OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 14001:2004 Environment and ISO 9001:2008 Quality standards. The bespoke integrated management system w
Allswater, a Canada-based engineering firm specializing in marine and offshore applications, has designed XTidal Instream Platform (XIP) aimed at tidal energy industry. The third generation platform has been designed with an increased platform capacity, modular construction and enhanced stability –
Indian state of Karnataka has struck a deal with a French-based company Tar Kovacs Systems to develop an ocean based renewable energy project. The deal was reached during the Make In India Week event, held in Dubai last week. The week-long event gathered more than 800,000 visitors, with the aim of c
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC), has announced she will step down from the post in July 2016. Figueres has formally written to governments and observers under the UN climate change process announcing her intention to step down from th
Three European research and testing sites are collaborating on the development of a methodology to improve reliability in marine energy converters. Scotland’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is working with the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and SP Technical Research Institute of
Tidal Lagoon Power, the developer behind proposed Swansea Bay tidal lagoon, believes the £1 billion project still has the support from within the UK government, BBC reports. The UK government announced on February 10 it would conduct an independent review into the feasibility and practicality of tid
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from February 15 – 21, 2016. Scotrenewables anchors at EMEC Scotrenewables Tidal Power has deployed its modular anchoring system at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) ahead of the installation of its SR2000 2 MW f
Civils contractors said that unless the UK government adopt a sea-change in its approach to the renewables sector, the industry will ‘fall off a cliff’ – costing jobs and growth, particularly in Scotland. In its response to the Scottish Affairs Committee’s inquiry into renewable energy, the Civil En
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has made two final contract awards from its first competitive call for power take-off systems. The first contract in the amount of £474,493 has been awarded to Trident Energy who joins the stage 2 programme Another award of £90,000 will be made to Exceedence who will parti
