The US Department of Energy (DoE) and Wave Energy Scotland (WES) are organizing a joint workshop on wave energy converters (WEC) system requirements and performance metrics. The goal of the workshop is to reach out to the wider wave energy community to facilitate input into the important specificati
Director of RenewableUK’s Welsh office, David Clubb, has responeded to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments that appear to indicate he is edging away from supporting the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. In response to comments Cameron made while giving evidence to the House of Commons Liaison
Seatricity, a Falmouth-based wave energy developer, has been shortlisted as one of the finalists for the Shell Springboard 2016 awards. The developer of the Oceanus wave energy device is in the run for Shell’s 2016 funding award of up to £150,000. Shell Springboard provides funding to UK’s small and
Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project, jointly developed by DCNS and EDF, could see the first OpenHydro’s tidal turbine installed next week. DCNS, parent company of OpenHydro, planned to install the first of the two 500 kW OpenHydro’s tidal turbines in December 2015, but due to unsuitable weather conditions
Atlantis Resources, an Edinburgh-based tidal energy player, has appointed Cameron Smith as Director of Project Development. Cameron has joined Atlantis’ new Executive Management Group based at its corporate headquarters in Scotland and will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Tim Corneli
Questioned over the potential use of tidal energy from Bristol Channel while giving evidence to the House of Commons Liaison Committee, UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron said that his ‘enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high.’ Swansea Bay 320 MW tidal lagoon proj
The Union Cabinet of India has approved India’s membership in the International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES). The nodal agency for the membership would be Earth System Science Organisation – National Institute of Ocean Technology (ESSO-NIOT) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, ac
Scotland should set an ambitious new target of generating the equivalent of 50% of its total electricity, heat and transport demand from renewables by 2030, according to industry body Scottish Renewables. Scottish Renewables is calling for the new target as part of its manifesto, Renewed Ambitions:
Bombora Wave Power has received Au$181,000 (~$127,000) of funding support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to complete a detailed ‘Levelised Cost of Energy’ (LCOE) study for its wave energy converter. The study aims to confirm that the Bombora WEC will make an important contributi
US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Wind and Water Power Technologies Office is seeking applicants for the position of marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) general engineer. As a general engineer, the successful applicant will serve as a lead engineer of a research and technology development portfolio The resp
Ireland’s Department of Jobs, through Science Foundation Ireland, has awarded multi-million funding for marine renewable energy research projects to MaREI, MARINET, and their university research partners. A total of 21 research projects will be supported through €28 million investment in research eq
Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) has formed a Fisheries Peer Review Group to act as independent advisors on the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon impacts on fish. The aim of the Fisheries Peer Review Group is to advise Tidal Lagoon Power and the fisheries research contractors on the methodology being adopted for the
Norwegian Ocean Power (NOP) has applied for a licence to Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) to test tidal turbine in Gimsøystraumen, north of the Arctic Circle, Norway. Norwegian-based tidal energy developer expects to receive the licence from NVE mid-March 2017 if the consultati
The initial stages of a project looking at biofouling solutions for marine renewables has been completed by the International Centre of Island Technology (ICIT), in collaboration with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and Heriot-Watt’s Energy Academy. The project was focused on the developmen
