Eco Wave Power, an Israeli wave developer company, has received approval from the Chinese government for the construction of its wave power plant in Zoushan island, China. Eco Wave Power (EWP), with the investment from Chinese government, established a subsidiary under the name Suzhou Eco Wave Techn
NOAA has proposed a rule for expanding the size and the focus of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary to include multiple marine species. Members of the public are invited to submit comments to the agency on the proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement now through
Kraken Sonar Systems has delivered a deep-sea rated Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (INSAS) system to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technology and Image Exploitation (IOSB). Under the terms of the contract, Kraken has designed, engineered and delivered a 6,000m depth
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) has provided an update to its activities in South America. Carnegie has been investigating opportunities in South America generally and Chile specifically in the past years through its local 100% owned subsidiary, CWE Chile. According to the c
Carnegie is pursuing opportunities to develop CETO wave power and desalination project in Chile. The company has been investigating opportunities in South America, Chile in particular, through its subsidiary CWE Chile. The Chilean Government has supported wave energy feasibility studies including th
Based near Portsmouth in the UK, ASV Ltd, in partnership with nine other commercial and research organisations, has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to undertake in excess of £3 million worth of research and development for Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS). Three separate projects involving ASV
The video published by SAL Offshore shows the installation of the Voith tidal turbine at EMEC’s tidal test site at the Fall of Warness. The MV Lone vessel, Equipped with Kongsberg Dynamic Positioning II System, was required for the installation process in order to lift the tidal turbine from its tra
GROW:OffshoreWind programme has been granted a six-month extension as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy to help more manufacturers take advantage of investment in supply chain infrastructure. Over £1m of funding has been put aside to assist more firms to overcome barriers to entry by givi
SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
Sandia National Laboratories’ water power technologies group, together with ORPC, has performed high fidelity evaluation of ORPC’s RivGen turbine. The Sandia-ORPC team applied high fidelity modeling to evaluate the performance of the RivGen prototype turbine generation unit, a cross-flow turbine, wh
ECN specialists Masoud Asgarpour and Ashish Dewan were awarded the prize at EWEA Offshore 2015 under the category “winner in supply chain, logistics and O&M”. The award was in the context of an analysis of three innovative scenarios for the installation of an offshore wind farm: Breakwaters: in orde
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has granted its first wind energy research lease for a 12MW offshore wind test facility off Virginia. The lease has been given to Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), which partnered with Dominion Resources, Inc. to develop the
WERPO is arranging the beginning of negotiations in the private and public sectors in Grenada, in order to implement its wave energy technology off the coast of this island country. In mid-December WERPO announced the partnership agreement with Seedsowers Investors and Developer, appointing Seedsowe
