JDR, a subsea technology and service provider to the offshore energy industry, has appointed Rob Hastings and Alan Wilson as Non-Executive Directors. Hastings is currently Executive Director of the corporate management board at The Crown Estate, which is a public corporation with extensive urban, ru
Gupta family interests have committed to an eight-figure investment over time in the development of tidal lagoon power plants in the UK and India. The move is part of a wider strategy by Gupta company, SIMEC, to create multi-billion pound renewable energy capacity worldwide and apply innovative tech
Makai Ocean Engineering has released a new version of its software for planning and simulation of subsea power and telecom cable installations. MakaiPlan Pro 6.0 includes the tools of GIS cable route engineering software MakaiPlan, and allows the user to perform precise 3-D, dynamic simulations of a
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from January 25 – 31, 2016. Atlantis to decommission SeaGen Following the acquisition of Marine Current Turbines, together with its seabed rights, existing projects, and intellectual property, which includes the SeaGen
Bureau Veritas has issued its first Approval in Principle for an Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC) to a 1MW plant developed by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO). The plant will be installed off the coast of South Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, in the South Pacifi
The Marine Institute has invited tenders for the provision of cables and connector units for the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site. The Marine Institute will award a Single Supplier Framework Agreement for a period of 2 years, under which the supplier will deliver one unit of cables a
BVG Associates, a renewable energy technical consultancy, has appointed Richard Morris as a consultant on projects within the wave and tidal sector. At BVG Associates, Morris will lead wave and tidal industry development, device and component testing and validation, market analysis, commercialisatio
Consultancy company Ecorys, in collaboration with Fraunhofer IWES, has been appointed by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation, to research the possibilities for the development of future wave and tidal energy resources. As part of the project, the companies will do fieldwork in countri
An agreement on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project could be reached soon, as the subsidy cost for a megawatt hour (MWh) of the lagoon’s power has recently been discussed in terms of extending the duration of the subsidy period from 35 to 90 years. Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the project
MMT, a Sweden-based marine survey services provider, has won a contract from DCNS for the ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) NEMO project. The project is jointly developed by DCNS and its partners with purpose to characterize the geophysical and geotechnical context of the area of an offshore po
A&P Falmouth has won the contract to refit Wello Oy’s Penguin wave energy device ahead of its Wave Hub deployment later this year. A&P Falmouth is to conduct maintenance operations on Finnish wave energy developer’s Penguin wave energy device, before the scheduled summer deployment at Wave Hub test
Oscilla Power, a Seattle-based wave energy developer, has completed the testing of their 1:50 scaled wave energy converter as part of the Wave Energy Prize challenge. Oscilla Power is developing a wave energy converter called Triton. It is a two-body point absorber, consisting of a large surface flo
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has implemented DHI’s MIKE 21 and MIKE 3 marine modelling software. PLOCAN is a research facility co-funded by the Economy and Competitiveness Ministry of the Spanish government and the Canary Islands government, with the aim of supporting the rese
Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has received payment from ARENA for the completion of the CETO 6 concept design milestone, as well as completing 12 months of operations of CETO 5 Perth Project as required in its Government grant funding agreements. Carnegie has received Au$200,
