Scotland-based renewable energy company Orbital Marine Power has been confirmed as the technology partner for Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO)’s proposed site off Blakely Island in Rosario Strait, Washington State. Building on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in 2021, the news foll
New Delhi-based Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has awarded Larsen & Toubro (L&T) with a five-year engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a floating solar project to be built at Getalsud Dam in Ranchi in eastern India’s state of Jharkhand. The contract, which is worth
Spanish tidal energy developer Magallanes Renovables has partnered up with Tadek Ocean Engineering for support related to its first commercial-scale tidal energy array. Magallanes secured two contracts in Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation rounds – the first at the Morlais Demonstration Zone
A new report by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has identified ten technology innovations, subsea hubs among others, that could result in an 80% cost reduction in tidal stream energy, making it lower than current nuclear energy prices if successfully commercialized. The ten technology i
Carnegie Clean Energy’s wholly-owned subsidiary Carnegie Technologies Spain has secured a €2.1 million grant from the Basque Energy Agency to support the deployment of its CETO wave energy device at Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country. The grant has been awarded by Ente Vasco
Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto is taking part in an acceleration program that is set to strengthen its business capabilities in the Southeast Asia region. Minesto has been awarded a place in the Business Acceleration Programme Southeast Asia (BAPSEA) joint program by the Swedish Energy Agenc
The UK government has set a £10 million ringfence for tidal stream in this year’s renewables auction, representing a third consecutive year. The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) announced that tidal stream and wave energy will compete in Pot 2 of the Contracts for Difference (C
Seven European partners are set to begin fabrication of an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform said to be capable of surviving in tropical storm areas, destined for deployment offshore Spain. Being developed under the EU-funded project PLOTEC, fabrication of the system is to begin this m
Danish company Wavepiston and Export Barbados (BIDC), an agency of the Barbados Government, are set to explore the deployment of wave energy farms offshore Barbados. According to Wavepiston, Barbados and most of the Caribbean region hold a large potential for wave energy. Barbados has set a net-zero
Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) project which has combined wave power with subsea energy storage to power subsea equipment has completed a 12-month test program at sea, aiming to reach the finish line this spring. This £2 million (approximately $2,5 million) project connected the Blue X wave ener
To deliver a cost-effective net-zero energy system and with electricity consumption potentially trebling by 2050, the UK should seek to harness 27 GW of wave energy, according to research by Finland’s LUT University. LUT University investigated a series of potential scenarios for the UK and Ireland
Four new partners have joined the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s joint industry project (JIP) to develop seabed mobility guidance for the offshore renewable sector. The 18-month project has doubled in number of partners, with National Grid, Ørsted, Vattenfall, and BP now joining RWE, Sco
Ramboll has been appointed to deliver advisory and technical support for the 600 MW Agnes Romagna offshore wind project, proposed to be built in the Italian sector of the Adriatic Sea and planned to integrate several other systems, including floating photovoltaic, battery storage and a hydrogen prod
The consortium behind the Nautical SUNRISE project has started work to develop the world’s largest offshore floating solar power installation. The €8.4 million project, supported by €6.8 million of the Horizon Europe program, started in December 2023 to execute research and development on offshore f
