Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Oregon-based Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) to encourage knowledge exchange and joint research activities.
KIC InnoEnergy has granted additional €1 million for the development of Minesto’s Deep Green tidal technology.
Cape Sharp Tidal is preparing to deploy the first OpenHydro tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia.
Global Maritime is to provide mooring and risk management support to the European Union’s OPERA project that aims to halve the cost of wave energy.
The implementation of the risk based approach to consenting of offshore renewable energy projects will be discussed today at the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) conference.
Ireland-based wave energy developer Seapower has completed the construction of its scaled wave energy converter set for testing at the SmartBay Test Site in Galway Bay, Ireland.
Incidents relating to the installation and operation of high voltage subsea cables are the most costly cause of financial losses in the global offshore wind industry and led to insurance claims totalling more than EUR 60 million in 2015, according to a report by GCube Underwriting Ltd. As the Europe
OceanGate, together with a team of explorers, conducted the mapping and the first manned submersible operation to the Andrea Doria shipwreck since 1995. The Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria sank in 1956 about 50 miles from Nantucket. The 697-foot-long wreck, often referred to as the “Mt. Everest
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has awarded Fugro with a contract for geotechnical site investigation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid (South) Wind Farm Zone. This follows previous contracts awarded earlier this year for geophysical survey and metocean mo
Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering is to provide mooring and risk management support to the European Union’s OPERA (Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost) project. Global Maritime is part of a 12-member consortium led by TECNALIA for the three-and-a-half-year program with t
Incidents relating to the installation and operation of high voltage subsea cables are the most costly cause of financial losses in the global offshore wind industry and led to insurance claims totalling more than €60 million in 2015. That is according to data assembled by GCube, the underwriter for
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards Spitsbergen, to use newly developed equipment in the Arctic Ocean. Autonomous instruments on the seabed, in the water column and in the air w
Next Geosolutions, an independent geoscience and engineering service provider, has shared lessons learned from the company’s involvement in the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline inspection activities. In 2014, Next Geosolutions completed the first of a two campaign project of nearshore survey and inspect
A consortium of 16 Dutch companies and research institutes will launch an innovation program for offshore wind – GROW – with an aim to bring the cost of offshore wind further down to seven eurocents per kWh by 2030. The GROW (Growth through Research, development & demonstration in Offshore Wind) con
