Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore (CIMC Raffles) has launched China’s first semi-submersible offshore floating solar power generation platform.
After a long development process, the Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative (MRECo) will start the first full test of a tidal energy turbine at its Bourne Tidal Test Site in the Cape Cod Canal.
Scottish company Nova Innovation has expanded its tidal energy product portfolio with the addition of floating solar technology, announcing also plans for the installation of Scotland’s first array of floating solar panels later in 2023.
French floating solar start-up HelioRec has closed the first tranche of its seed round, securing new investments from First Imagine! and Techstars.
The University of Malta has teamed up with its offshore energy storage spin-off FLASC to assess the potential of integrating renewable energy and energy storage solutions with floating breakwaters.
Swedish company Ocean Harvesting Technologies has embarked on a funding raise, targeting €400,000 to further optimize its InfinityWEC wave energy device ahead of sea trials.
In a pressing need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the shipping sector and offshore vessel services providers are certainly the protagonists in the whole decarbonization story. However, although we are seeing an increasing number of initiatives, we still have a long way to go.
The government of British Columbia has provided C$2 million ($1.5 million) to the University of Victoria Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) for research into tidal energy technologies.
French company SolarinBlue has secured permit from the Indian government for a 1MWp offshore solar farm in the Arabian Sea, near the city of Mangalore.
World’s largest chemical producer BASF has installed a floating solar system, designed and constructed by Noria Energy, at its manufacturing site in the United States.
An electric utility providing services to San Juan County in the US state of Washington has started exploring the feasibility of developing a tidal energy project that would provide another layer of energy resilience for the island communities in the Salish Sea.
French start-up SolarinBlue has deployed two offshore floating solar units in the Mediterranean sea as part of the Sun’Sète project, which aims to supply clean electricity to one of the 10 biggest French ports.
Independent renewable power producer Qair and the Republic of Seychelles’ Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 5.8MWp floating solar project, the first in the history of the Seychelles.
The UK is pivoting towards renewable and low-carbon energy in a push to strengthen energy security, says the Energy Industries Council (EIC).
