Wello’s Penguin wave energy device has marked its one-year anniversary of continuous deployment in Orkney, Scotland.
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from March 5 – 11, 2018.
The EPICTidal project team has conducted rotor blade performance assessment using a submersible tidal turbine test rig in the hydrodynamic test tank at Haslar Marine Technology Park.
Swansea-based wave energy developer Marine Power Systems (MPS) has concluded tow testing of the WaveSub wave energy device in the Milford Haven Waterway.
Forum Subsea Technologies and BluHaptics have entered a joint agreement enabling technologies from both companies to be combined to provide solutions for ROV and subsea engineering applications. The VMAX Software is a 3D ROV simulation product, which is used for training and evaluation of ROV pilots
The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has expanded its unmanned ocean observation fleet of Wave Gliders to the 9th Regional District, headquartered in Niigata, Japan. This growth is part of JCG’s multi-year, ocean monitoring program to provide situational awareness of ocean currents, wave activity, and weathe
The recently completed InSTREAM project has found significant differences between the turbulence characteristics in the tank and in the field.
New insights into animal patterns around extinct submarine volcanoes could inform measures used to protect marine ecosystems from human activities, such as trawling and deep-sea mining. These insights have been published in Nature Scientific Reports, and show that the structure of marine life commun
Wave Hub Ltd (WHL) has issued an invitation to tender for the provision of wind resource data for the Wave Hub offshore site in Cornwall.
Survey and positioning services specialist iSURVEY said it has invested more than £40,000 in staff training. iSURVEY staff were educated in rapid and accurate acquisition and processing of seabed survey data. During February and March, the staff gained a deeper understanding and awareness of the key
Orkney-based energy and environmental consultancy Aquatera is looking to expand its team with two new job openings.
XPRIZE has announced nine finalist teams advancing in the $7-million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year global competition challenging teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid, unmanned and high-resolution ocean exploration. XPRIZE will award each finalist an equal share of a $1 million
Researchers from The University of Manchester have released a study which aims to shed more light on the degradation procedures associated with tidal turbines in order to inform more accurate cost projections for potential new installations.
US-based wave energy developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has reported a decrease in net loss of 19% in the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 when compared to the same period a year before.
