UK Ministers have reaffirmed their support for Wave Hub, a test site that aims to accelerate and support the development of offshore renewable energy technology, Wave Hub’s press release reads. Wave Hub is owned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) UK. It provides shared offshor
Laminaria wave energy converter is a device that uses tilting motion to convert the energy of the waves into electricity. The Laminaria WEC is constituted from vertical surface that interacts with the incoming horizontal wave energy. As a result of the horizontal movement in the water the Laminaria
Eco Wave Power, an Israeli wave developer company, has received approval from the Chinese government for the construction of its wave power plant in Zoushan island, China. Eco Wave Power (EWP), with the investment from Chinese government, established a subsidiary under the name Suzhou Eco Wave Techn
UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has released the annual energy statistics report for 2014. Electricity generated in 2014 fell by 6.7 percent, from 359.2 TWh a year earlier to 335.0 TWh. Renewable electricity generation was 64.4 TW/h in 2014, an increase of 20 percent on the 53.7 TW/h
Géraldine Martin has been named as the new General Director of West Normandy Marine Energy (WNME). Géraldine Martin previously occupied the position of Deputy Director. The primary objective entrusted to Martin by the Board of Directors will be to further develop marine renewables energy (MRE) secto
Carnegie is pursuing opportunities to develop CETO wave power and desalination project in Chile. The company has been investigating opportunities in South America, Chile in particular, through its subsidiary CWE Chile. The Chilean Government has supported wave energy feasibility studies including th
Stonehenge Metals Ltd has appointed William Toman as the President of the company’s US subsidiary, Protean Wave Energy Inc. William Toman has over 25 years of experience in energy inudustry management and development. Toman has worked at California Polytechnic University where he led US Department o
Damen Shipyards Group, an international shipyard group based in the Netherlands, has become a member of World Ocean Council (WOC). The company stated that it works on optimizing the ship design and product innovations in order to reduce the environmental impacts of the shipping. Damen’s designers an
The video published by SAL Offshore shows the installation of the Voith tidal turbine at EMEC’s tidal test site at the Fall of Warness. The MV Lone vessel, Equipped with Kongsberg Dynamic Positioning II System, was required for the installation process in order to lift the tidal turbine from its tra
UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has released ‘The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon Economy’ report that covers the time period from 2010 to 2013. The report states the rates of employment in marine technologies industry was the lowest out of all in low carbon electricity s
IMarEST’s Metocean Awareness Course aims to help professionals in offshore industries to better understand the effects of meteorology that could have an impact on their design and operations activites. Metocean is a discipline covering meteorology and physical oceanography, and is concerned with qua
Sandia National Laboratories’ water power technologies group, together with ORPC, has performed high fidelity evaluation of ORPC’s RivGen turbine. The Sandia-ORPC team applied high fidelity modeling to evaluate the performance of the RivGen prototype turbine generation unit, a cross-flow turbine, wh
WERPO is arranging the beginning of negotiations in the private and public sectors in Grenada, in order to implement its wave energy technology off the coast of this island country. In mid-December WERPO announced the partnership agreement with Seedsowers Investors and Developer, appointing Seedsowe
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), together with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, is offering free component testing to support the development of wave and tidal energy converters. The goal of the project is to help the industry gain better understanding of issuses regarding comp
