DNV GL has issued new service specification certification of tidal turbines and arrays, along with a new technical standard for tidal turbines. The new service specification DNVGL-SE-0163 Certification is built on the foundation of DNV-OSS-312 Certification of Tidal and Wave Energy Converters and th
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has allocated £2.25 million to 8 technology developers and consortia as part of its second competitive call for novel wave energy converters. The projects will receive £300,000 each to take their technologies through WES’ stage one technology development process over the p
CorPower Ocean, a Swedish wave energy developer, has completed €6.5 million funding round for the development of its wave energy technology whose design was inspired by the pumping principles of human heart. According to CorPower, the investment will allow a third round of testing of its CorPower wa
US Department of Energy (DoE) has selected California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) to receive $1.5 million in additional funding for the California Wave Energy Test Center (CalWave) project. According to Stonehenge Metals, part of the Cal Poly team, the $1.5 million funding award is targeted at
Dr. Kazumasa Oguri, Senior Research Scientist for Analyses of Changes in East Japan Marine Ecosystems and his colleagues at JAMSTEC carried out long-term monitoring of the seafloor environment off Otsuchi Bay to investigate environmental changes of the deep-sea floor after the 2011 off the Pacific c
One year on from the official opening of their Fast Flow Facility, engineers and scientists at HR Wallingford are celebrating a first year in business. The Fast Flow Facility was officially opened on October 30, 2014, comprising a 75 m long and 8 m wide flume holding a million litres of water that c
UK-based specialist engineering consultancy HR Wallingford today marked one year from the official opening of their Fast Flow Facility, a 75-meter-long flume designed to simulate the interaction of waves, currents and sediments at large scale and in more detail than was previously possible. Since it
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has redeployed the repaired APB350 A1 PowerBuoy following the damage caused by the hurricane earlier this year. According to OPT, the sea trials off New Jersey coast have been resumed. George Kirby, President and CEO of OPT, said: “We are encouraged by A1’s performance
Investments in unmanned maritime systems are becoming more popular every day, especially in the areas of ocean scientific research, the oil and gas industry, and naval industry. Developers and manufactures of robotic systems used for monitoring and surveillance of oceans, such as unmanned underwater
Resolute Marine Energy, a Boston-based wave energy developer, might test its wave energy technology off Camp Rilea, Oregon. Camp Rilea is a training center for US armed forces, and according to The Daily Astorian, a local news publisher, Resolute Marine hopes to deploy two oscillating wave energy co
US-based GreenFix, and WorldFlix, have designed OASIIS technology that is capable of producing distilled water and electricity from using OTEC and solar thermal technology. The technology was invented and patented by GreenFix CTO Richard Henderson. According to GreenFix, once built, the 1 to 5 squar
US wave energy specialist Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has redeployed the APB350 (A1) PowerBuoy off the coast of New Jersey and resumed sea trials. OPT also plans to release selected performance data gathered during the A1’s initial deployment as well as initial results of the Accelerated Life Tes
Carnegie Wave Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Australian government’s power utility Western Power to deliver a renewable energy island microgrid project for Garden Island, Perth. The Garden Island Microgrid Project (GIMG) project will consist of the CETO 6 Project currentl
Atmocean, a US-based wave energy developer, has launched phase two of its ocean wave energy demonstration program off Ilo, Peru. Atmocean has redeployed its wave energy system that was retrieved on July 29, 2015, after it was under sea trials for three weeks. In this second phase of the trials, the
