International energy company innogy and Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly investigate the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind cross-border interconnectors across a North Sea Wind Power Hub system. Sea.
HydroQuest and its equity partner CMN (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) have informed that they will install and commission the HydroQuest Ocean 1MW tidal turbine at EDF’s Paimpol-Bréhat site in France in the spring of 2019.
Orkney will become home to another innovative energy solution with a newly launched project set to deliver an onshore energy management system that will support the production of hydrogen using an electrolyser powered by a tidal energy converter.
On June 6, the consortium behind the NeSSIE project (short for North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy) launched a competition for delivering anti-corrosion solutions for tidal, wave and offshore wind energy sectors.
Equinor has received the approval of the plan for development and operation of the Johan Castberg field from the Norwegian Parliament on Monday. The plan will now be submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for formal approval, the company informed. “This is a great day for the project and
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for offshore wind farms which is said to allow power transmission to the coast in a simpler, more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.
German energy company EnBW and Seattle-based Trident Winds have formed a joint venture to develop the Morro Bay floating wind project off the coast of Central California.
Saab Seaeye has enhanced the system for global remote control of its electric underwater robotic vehicles via satellite link and 4G networks. Remote control of its Leopard electric robotic work vehicle has now been upgraded to include control of the TMS. Such remote operations should bring savings t
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from June 4 – June 10, 2018.
Scottish marine service provider Green Marine has submerged another piece of innovative technology into Orkney’s deeps having recently installed Microsoft’s clean energy-powered datacenter.
Six awardees have been selected to receive a total of $6.7 million in federal funding for the development of innovative marine energy technologies.
Dutch province of Zeeland has provided €250,000 from its public fund to support the joint, large-scale, north-west European tidal energy and battery storage project called the MIDAS.
European scour researchers have kicked off PROTEUS, a new EU Hydralab+ project, which aims to improve the design of scour protection around offshore wind turbine monopiles and future-proof them against the impacts of climate change.
Offshore wind could support 2,144 Maine jobs annually through 2030, according to a report released by the American Jobs Project.
