Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) researchers have completed oceanographic survey of the Yakutat coast in Alaska as part of a multiyear project o assess wave and tidal energy potential in the area.
Vestas and Maersk Supply Service, in cooperation with MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, are developing a crane solution that could, according to the companies, significantly bring down the cost of wind turbine installation.
OceanGate said it has carried out a successful unmanned depth test of the manned submersible, Titan, to validate the hull to a depth of 4,000 meters. Titan is the world’s first privately owned five-person submersible to reach this depth and opens over 50% of the ocean to manned exploration. Designed
Offshore wind developer Equinor has installed Batwind solution – said to be the world’s first battery for offshore wind – at its Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm.
The elastomeric mooring tethers, said to be in position to address cost and reliability challenges associated with marine energy devices, have been installed at the BiMEP test site in the Bay of Biscay, on the northern coast of Spain.
DG MARE, a body responsible for the EU Commission’s policies on maritime affairs and fisheries, has published an ocean energy market study which outlines the financial needs of the ocean energy sector in the EU.
Swedish Energy Agency has co-financed the demonstration project of the CorPower’s wave energy technology and decided to invest €8.2M to commercialize the technology at full scale. “With the Energy Agency’s investment, we have a good foundation for commercializing our product,” said Patrik Möller, CE
The representative organizations for the UK marine energy sector, as well as their European counterpart Ocean Energy Europe, have expressed their disappointment on the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon rejection and called the UK government to chart clear and viable route to market for tidal and wave industr
The Swedish Energy Agency has granted CorPower Ocean a little over €8 million (SEK 85 million) to support the construction and testing of a full-scale device and subsequent wave energy park demonstration.
Oilfield technology firm Airborne Oil & Gas has started a qualification of a TCP riser for deepwater and dynamic applications for an operator in South America in collaboration with Subsea 7. The TCP riser qualification programme, believed to be a world first for fully bonded composite risers, aims t
Following the UK government’s rejection of the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon proposal, SIMEC Atlantis Energy has put the spotlight on its Wyre Estuary tidal barrage project calling it a ‘natural pathfinder’ for the larger planned lagoon projects.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has received a new US patent for a method of controlling wave power generation equipment to optimize energy harvesting in low to moderate sea states.
Australian-based tidal energy company MAKO Tidal Turbines (MTT) and Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) are about to undertake a six month tidal turbine demonstration at the Port of Gladstone. The project will investigate how tidal energy can contribute to Australia’s energy mix. MTT CEO, Douglas Hunt
The UK government has rejected the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon proposal, stating that it does not meet the requirements for value for money.
