ABB has received an order, worth around $140 million, from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install an HVDC converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany. The HVDC Light “back-to-back” converter station, the first of i
Witt Ltd has launched a £750,000 equity raise through the crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, to take the WITT technology into manufacturing for its first application as the 200-Watt Marine WITT. The Marine WITT is expected to provide autonomous power for marine applications, such as large-scale survi
The first power from the Shetland Tidal Array project has been exported to the grid, Nova Innovation and ELSA announced on Wednesday. The first Nova M100 turbine of the array delivered power to the Shetland grid following a winter of operations and testing. The Shetland Tidal Array is a joint enterp
DNV GL with its industry partners Petrobras, Shell, Statoil and Woodside has kick-started a joint industry project (JIP) to standardize subsea processing systems. The JIP ‘Subsea Processing – Standardization of Subsea Pumping’ seeks to deepen industry knowledge and encourage progress in this area by
The energy produced from the first tidal turbine from the Shetland Tidal Array project has been exported to the grid. The first Nova M100 turbine of the array delivered power to the Shetland grid following a winter of operations and testing, Nova Innovation informed. The Shetland Tidal Array is a jo
Around 100 participants from 22 countries gathered in Norway for the first UNI-SET Energy Clustering Event (ECE) to discuss and stimulate cooperation for the development of innovative research and education programmes in the energy field. This was the first of five ECEs scheduled in 2016 and 2017. T
Horizon Geosciences has added Cathodic Protection (CP) surveys to its list of survey services. CP surveys are used to assess and control the integrity of metal subsea assets as environmental and time related factors can cause corrosion of important offshore and near shore infrastructure and componen
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered up with the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to conduct ocean demonstrations of its SCOOP monitoring system integrated into OPT’s APB350 PowerBuoy. An initial ocean demonstration will be conducted off New Jersey, with additional demonstrations to be condu
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) is conducting final tests on its PLAT-O tidal platform ahead of the scheduled transportation to Orkney.
French National Research Agency (ANR), in collaboration with France Energies Marines (FEM), has launched a second call for marine research and development projects. The call for projects in 2016 has a total budget of €3 million and is part of the SET-Plan set by the European Commission. ANR will co-
SeeByte and ASV have entered into a commercial partnership where the two companies will collaborate to bring new capabilities and solutions to the field of maritime autonomy. This agreement sees SeeByte and ASV build upon previous collaborative work to develop the next generation of adaptive autonom
Research led by geoscientists at the University of Southampton and with contributions by marine scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is reportedly the first to show a direct link between fault activity and the amount of water entering the solid Earth along faults. The re
Safrema Energy, a Florida-based company, has developed an augmented turbine system comprised of two vertical axis water turbines. The NEXUS, an augmented turbine system, features a trimaran hull which houses two improved axis water turbines, an augmenter system to increase the current velocity, and
Carbon Trust, in association with DECC, is seeking opinions on the creation of a new fund to support UK-based start-ups and projects in the renewable energy and low-carbon sectors. The Carbon Trust is working with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to assess the need for a low-carbon
