After validating its technology in European wave basins at a small scale, French start-up Seaturns is now progressing to the next stage by starting tests on a 1:4-scale prototype at the Ste Anne du Portzic site in Brittany, France. Seaturn installed the demonstrator at the Ifremer test site in Octob
BlueNewables, a Spanish engineering consultancy supporting the marine energy sector, is moving forward with its floating solar demonstration project in Valencia with the first round of contacts with main suppliers finished. BlueNewables reported on January 18 that its 1 MW PV-bos project in Valencia
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a $14.5M funding opportunity, aiming to address challenges in marine and ocean renewable energy industries and to encourage innovation. DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) released the opportunity on
Duke Energy has commissioned its first floating solar project in Florida, located at the Duke Energy Hines Energy Complex in Bartow, which has a capacity of almost 1 MW. The project consists of an almost 1 MW solar array that floats on a two-acre cooling pond. The array is made up of over 1,800 bifa
Carnegie Clean Energy’s MoorPower demonstration project has started operating at the offshore test site in North Fremantle, Western Australia. The technology is expected to reduce the requirement for fossil fuels, reduce carbon emissions, reduce risk and drive down cost. The MoorPower Demonstrator d
HydroWing, part of Inyaga Marine Energy Group, has developed a new barge aimed at reducing the costs of installing and maintaining its tidal stream array technology. HydroWing was the largest tidal stream project in Wales to be successful in the UK government’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD)
The industry needs to start shifting its focus from wind farms to energy farms as we have limited space which we need to make use of in an efficient way. A synergy of offshore wind and floating solar is the way to go. “If you only fill 20% of wind farm space with floating solar, […]
NTPC, formerly known as the National Thermal Power Corporation, is inviting bids for a 15 MW floating solar plant at Maroda Reservoir-1 in Chhattisgarh, India. The 15 MW floating solar project is set to be located at Maroda Reservoir-1, near the Bhilai Steel Plant of NSPCL, a joint venture between N
An ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) project developed by Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) in Mauritius has made a step towards commercialization by being selected for a program commissioned by Mauritius’ Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). MOL’s project involves an initial study o
The U.S. Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program has approved funding totaling nearly $1.3 million for ten projects under its eleventh Request for Technical Support (RFTS). According to TEAMER, these projects, designated as Technical Support Recipients (TSRs), will ha
Minesto has carried out the Launch and Recovery System (LARS) method for the 1.2 MW, 25-ton Dragon 12 tidal energy kite in Vestmannsund, Faroe Islands. According to Minesto, the operations developed for Dragon 4, which has a capacity of 100 kW and weighs 2.5 tons, were equally effective with the meg
Hydrogen, deemed as a connector for offshore energy markets, is yet to play a very important role, especially in hard-to-abate sectors. The energy transition and especially the hydrogen transition can be built efficiently, faster, cheaper, and with fewer emissions if we build it on existing knowledg
Inyanga Marine Energy Group has opened a new office in Wales to support the development of the 10 MW HydroWing tidal stream energy project at Morlais, Anglesey. The HydroWing project secured a contract in the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round in the UK held back in September 2023.
Minesto has completed the Dragon 12 offshore infrastructure in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands, marking readiness for power production with the achieved connection of the export cable to the foundation. According to Minesto, completion of infrastructure subsea included re-locating the pre-installed jun
