The European Commission has approved French plans to support four demonstration floating wind farms, one in the Atlantic Ocean and three in the Mediterranean. The projects include the Groix Belle Ile wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Golfe du Lion, Eolmed, and Provence Grand Large wind farms
The EU-funded FORESEA (Funding Ocean Energy through Strategic European Action) programme has awarded recommendations for support to five offshore renewable energy projects under its final call. The projects have been selected due to their high readiness level for real sea testing within the year. Fi
Eco Wave Power’s founder Inna Braverman has been selected as the winner of the Women4Climate Tech Challenge, organized by C40 Cities in Paris. The Women4Climate Tech Challenge is an international contest open to women designing an innovative, climate-focused tech solutions. Ten solutions of women fr
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National Advisor Bureau Limited in UAE has proposed the Fujairah-Mumbai subsea tunnel project to connect India, China and Pakistan with the United Arab Emirates. According to the Bureau, the project will have a number of benefits, among others the transport of passengers, tourists and workers betwee
Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) has launched the Ocean Energy Scale Up Alliance (OESA) project. According to the company’s social media update, the OESA project, which will scale-up five ocean energy pilots, has kicked off on Thursday. OESA is coordinated by DMEC and has received funding to suppor
The BioFREE (Biofouling in Renewable Energy Environments) project has started data collection from biofouling monitoring systems deployed across international marine renewable energy (MRE) test centres. A webinar will be hosted by IEA Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Annex IV to discuss current environmen
Marine-i, the EU funded programme set up to boost marine innovation in Cornwall, has made a grant award to specialist marine technology company, Submarine Technology Ltd (STL). Based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, STL have opened a new office in Penryn, Cornwall, to focus on designing and building t
26 European islands have officially launched their clean energy transition with the support of the European Commission’s Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat. In a first phase, 6 islands, the Aran Islands (Ireland), the Cres-Lošinj archipelago (Croatia), Sifnos (Greece), Culatra (Portugal), Salin
QED Naval recently returned to Subhub following the completion of the tow to tidy things up and secure Subhub for the initial ballast system and flow augmentation trials. The moorings were reset so that Subhub now aligns to flow on the flood and ebb tides where flow speeds of up to 1m/s are experien
Aker Solutions has been appointed by Wintershall to build a complete digital replica of the Nova production system to enable data driven engineering, production and maintenance decisions. Through two separate agreements, Aker Solutions will provide both a fully interactive digital replica of the int
Crown Estate Scotland has granted an extension to the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) lease for the Fall of Warness tidal energy test site in Orkney until 2040. The extension will support the long-term ambitions and demonstration plans of EMEC’s clients. EMEC’s Fall of Warness site offers dev
Neptune Energy has submitted Plans for Development and Operation (PDOs) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the Duva and Gjøa P1 projects in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The fields will be developed as subsea tie-backs connecting two templates to the nearby Gjøa platform, operated
SeaOwls and Ulstein Design & Solutions have terminated their partnership to jointly develop a heavy lift jack-up vessel solution for offshore wind installation. Instead, the two companies will go their own separate ways in the offshore wind industry. The patent rights of the SOUL concept were develo
