The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) initiative, in collaboration with Carbon Trust, may shortly launch a competitive design competition. The objectives of the competition are to reduce the cost of the installation processes for seabed mounted tidal turbine fo
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Marine Farm Accelerator (MFA) initiative, in collaboration with Carbon Trust, may shortly launch a competitive design competition. The objectives of the competition are to reduce the cost of the installation processes for seabed mounted tidal turbine fo
Mojo Maritime has won the Best Tidal Industry Collaboration Award at the 8th International Tidal Energy Summit for its leadership of the Hi Flo 4 (HF4) tidal energy vessel consortium, comprised of Voith, Bauer Renewables, DNV GL and University of Exeter. The HF4 project, supported by the Technology
Following the successful completion of its first operational trial of its LiquiBuoy system,earlier this year, engineering firm Aubin Subsea announced that it could transform subsea lifting. LiquiBuoy is an alternative to traditional buoyancy systems currently on the market, such as syntactic foam. I
Continuing its strategy of creating and delivering exceptional wind analysis and development tools, AWS Truepower, LLC, an international leader in renewable energy consulting and information services, has purchased the Windographer software from Mistaya Engineering, Inc. Windographer is the market-l
West Normandy Marine Energy, the local public company supporting the development of Renewable Marine Energy (RME) industrial sector in West Normandy, endorses ADEME’s decision in the call-for-tender, which has chosen the consortia of Alstom/GDF Suez and DCNS/EDF Energies Nouvelles. This 120 million
OWI-Lab will participate in the EWEA Workshop ‘Analysis of Operating Wind Farms 2014’ taking place next week 8 and 9 December in Malmö-Sweden. It we will give an overview of its current research topics, challenges, results and future perspectives. OWI-Lab is a Belgian R&D initiative for offshore win
Over 8000 square kilometers of the seafloor have been searched but no debris has been found relating to the missing Malaysian Airline. The latest news on the search vessel movement tells us that Fugro Equator continues to conduct bathymetric survey work in the search area. To date, over 185,000 squa
The International Seabed Authority is calling for applications for the training programme to be provided by China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association (COMRA) in 2015 pursuant to the contract for exploration for polymetallic sulphides between the International Seabed Authorit
SETS, a north-east subsea engineering firm has developed a new generation of re-usable, environmentally neutral subsea mats. Available in the UK for the first time, the mats are meant to eliminate the use of permanent concrete mattresses to land equipment on during subsea operations and can also be
The second phase of an ambitious project to gather valuable information on ocean processes and marine life using a fleet of innovative marine robots has just reached its conclusion. Co-ordinated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the Exploring Ocean Fronts project took place off southwest En
Fehmarnbelt Environmental Monitoring and Consultancy (FEMO) consortium, has signed an approximately $50 million (DKK 300 million) framework contract with Femern A/S. The Fehmarnbelt project will establish a fixed link between Northern Germany and Denmark across the Fehmarnbelt. FEMO previously worke
Following a comprehensive process of Expressions of Interest and the resulting recommendation by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), DCNS (OpenHydro parent company) and EDF Energies Nouvelles were selected for the development of pilot tidal turbine arrays off the French coas
Alstom, together with GDF SUEZ, has been chosen by the Prime Minister to supply equipment for a tidal energy pilot farm at Raz Blanchard, west of the Cotentin peninsula (Manche), following the findings of a study conducted by the ADEME. This choice was made as part of the “Programme des Investisseme
