The laying of the cable is part of the construction of the Ocean Energy Test Bed, off Ireland. The site located at Galway Bay, Ireland, will be used for the purposes of testing, demonstrating and validation of renewable energy devices and marine environmental sensors and technologies. Galway Bay tes
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced up to AUD 20 million for a new research and development (R&D) round dedicated to industry-partnered projects that seek to develop and commercialise renewable energy technologies. ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht was joined by founder of Suntech
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced up to USD 15.15 mln (AUD 20 mln) in funding for development and commercialization of renewable energy technologies. This round of funding is dedicated to industry-partnered research and development projects. Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA’s CEO, sai
At this year’s EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen, Gordon McFadzean represented TNEI where he was selected as a poster award winner in the “Grids” topic. His poster tackled Medium Voltage Direct Current technology for offshore wind farms. TNEI Services has been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, whi
At this year’s EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen, Gordon McFadzean represented TNEI where he was selected as a poster award winner in the “Grids” topic. His poster tackled Medium Voltage Direct Current technology for offshore wind farms. TNEI Services has been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, whi
The potential generating capacity of Newport tidal lagoon could be between 1.8 GW and 2.8 GW, the same as the proposed Cardiff tidal lagoon. According to the Planning Inspectorate, Newport tidal lagoon would comprise a seawall attached to the foreshore, at its western extent, approximately 1 km to t
In the first quarter of 2015 the global investment in clean energy sector was the lowest in the last two years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reports the global investment in clean energy was USD 50.5 bln in the first quarter of 2015, which represents the decrease of 15 percent when compared w
Researchers from Thailand and Canada have published a paper on offshore wind potential in Thailand. The paper presents offshore wind resource maps of the Gulf of Thailand. The offshore wind resource maps are validated using measured wind speeds obtained from 28 meteorological towers installed along
An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust. The team found that the accepted theory, that Iceland consists of very thick oceanic crust, generated by the interaction between the ocean-ridge seafloor
Hann-Ocean Energy (HOE) has constructed Drakoo-B wave energy converter with twin-chamber oscillating water column system that creates a continuous water flow which drives a hydro turbine generator to produce electricity. The device operates when the incoming wave increases the inlet chamber’s water
The Department of Environmental Affairs’ SA Agulhas II has embarked on her third logistical and scientific voyage to Marion Island on Thursday 9 April 2015. During this voyage, scientists from the DEA’s Oceans and Coasts Research unit as well as from various universities in South Africa will jointly
The deployment of the ISWEC wave energy converter off Italy has been delayed due to unsuitable weather conditions. Italy-based Wave for Energy originally intended to install the 100 kW ISWEC device in March, off the island of Pantelleria, Sicily. Tidal Energy Today spoke to Paolo Gherra, Project Man
Siemens and Statoil have jointly developed and qualified a subsea hydraulic power unit for use in offshore oil and gas fields in order to provide hydraulic power right at the well site. The Subsea Hydraulic Power Unit (SHPU) supplies low pressure and high pressure control fluid to the subsea control
FORCE has invited interested parties to discuss the proposed safety zone around recently installed power cables at Bay of Fundy, Canada. The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has completed the mapping of the seabed location of the installed subsea cables in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fun
