A 3.4 MW tidal power generator developed by China has been installed off Zhoushan island, eastern part of the country. The modular generator is 70 m long and 30 m wide. With the height of 20 m, it weighs around 2,500 tonnes. According to the Chinese government, the device is expected to start produc
Resolute Marine Energy (RME) Cape Verde, a subsidiary of the US-based wave energy player RME, has received $930,000 to develop a wave-powered desalination system. The fuding granted by the African Development Bank-hosted (AFDB) Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) will be used for setting up th
Waves4Power, a Sweden-based wave energy developer, is organizing a public viewing of their WaveEL wave energy device at Eriksberg quayside, Gothenburg, Sweden, ahead of its deployment.
Dramatically increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030 would increase GDP, social welfare and employment worldwide, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable Energy Benefits: Measuring the Economics report states that ac
KIC InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe, has launched the Call for Innovation Proposals 2016 in an effort to bring new innovations from the sustainable energy field to market. The call is seeking European businesses – start-ups, SMEs or larger, that have an innovat
The OCEANERA-NET project will offer the latest information about the upcoming second joint call for collaborative research in ocean energy at a side event during the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) 2016. The aim of the OCEANERA-NET joint call 2016, set to be launched early in 2016, i
KIC InnoEnergy has launched the Call for Innovation Proposals 2016 in their bid to propel new innovations from the sustainable energy field to market. The Call is seeking European businesses – start-ups, SMEs or larger, that have an innovation in sustainable energy but that need support commercialis
Fraunhofer UK, Synaptec and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) have teamed up to develop a new way to address cable and electrical infrastructure integrity within the marine renewable energy industry. Funded by InnovateUK, the ORCHIDS project (Offshore Renewable energy Cable Health monitoring
Fraunhofer UK, part of Europe’s largest application-oriented research organisation, has joined forces with Synaptec and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to develop an innovative solution to address cable and electrical infrastructure integrity within the marine renewable energy industry.
GE Power Conversion has developed a higher density power stack which enables the converters to remain small in size while delivering more power. The LV3 Stack, suitable for use across different sectors including tidal, solar, and wind, has increased density, reaching 1250 amps compared to previous o
GE Power Conversion has created a higher density power stack that will enable wind converters to remain small in size while delivering more power. The LV3 power stack has increased density, reaching 1250 amps compared to previous offerings of 1000 amps. Looking at the wind sector in particular, when
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (Fraunhofer IWES) expects to receive a EUR 10 million financial investment from German federal authorities to further develop a new method of rotor blade testing, as well as improve its test infrastructure in Bremerhaven. At present,
The Utrecht University together with the research institute Deltares officially opened the Metronome tidal research facility on 12 January in the Netherlands. To create reversing tidal flow and sediment transport on scale, professor Maarten Kleinhans of the university created a twenty by three meter
Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project, jointly developed by DCNS and EDF, could see the first OpenHydro’s tidal turbine installed next week. DCNS, parent company of OpenHydro, planned to install the first of the two 500 kW OpenHydro’s tidal turbines in December 2015, but due to unsuitable weather conditions
