The fully assembled workshop testing of the core energy conversion system components of the Protean™ Wave Energy Converter (WEC) has been concluded. Building on the success of the workshop testing, the Protean™ WEC technology program has now advanced to the ocean based or “wet” testing phase. Stoneh
Stonehenge Metals has announced plans to commence with the ocean testing of their Protean wave energy converter. Following the conclusion of the core components workshop testing of the fully assembled Protean WEC, Stonehenge Metals has announced that the Protean WEC technology program has now advanc
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has deployed its PB40 PowerBuoy off the coast of New Jersey – the company’s first deployment since 2013. In addition to further validating the logistical processes associated with permitting, staging, and buoy towing to its mooring location approximately 55 km southeas
https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/events/Test-Sites-AnnexIV-Webinar-20150721.mp4 Annex IV has hosted the webinar that featured discussions on marine renewable energy test centers and environmental effects research. The webinar discussed current environmental research efforts focused around
HYPACK, Inc., a provider of hydrographic and navigation software, will be holding its HYPACK Seminar on August 10th – 12th, 2015 in Cartagena, Colombia. The 3-day training seminar will be organized by their agent Marine Technology sp. z o.o. and will cover all the aspects of single beam and multibea
Basque Government has officially opened bimep marine platform for research, development, and operation of marine energy converters near the coastal town of Armintza, Spain. With a power generating capacity of 20 MW, bimep is a research infrastructure dedicated for demonstrating the technical and eco
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, has just posted on its official facebook page this beautiful photo of their trailing suction hopper dredger Yaquina. So far this season, the vessel has traveled more than 4,500 miles while removing nearly a half million cubic yards of sediment fro
SgurrEnergy has partnered with Chinese lidar manufacturer, OASIS, in a deal which will complement the company’s package of wind farm SgurrOptimiser services. The package, which includes bespoke analysis and recommendations to fully extract the wind energy potential from operating wind farms, will he
Carnegie Wave, an Australian wave energy developer, will join forces with the University of Western Australia (UWA) on a project to research and develop more efficient anchoring systems for wave energy converters. The project will use a multidisciplinary approach to investigate unique anchoring conc
Wave for Energy’s ISWEC wave energy device is ready for the August deployment off Sicily, Italy. After delaying the deployment of the device several times due to unsuitable weather conditions, Wave for Energy, a Turin-based wave energy developer, plans to deploy the device on August 1, 2015. Paolo G
Collaborative project TiME that aims to improve the understanding of the effect of marine turbulence on tidal arrays in Scottish waters is entering the final stages of data analysis following the successful turbulence measurements surveys. TiME (Turbulence in Marine Environments) project is develope
Seatricity, a Cornwall-based wave energy developer, has completed the Oceanus technology testing at Beaufort Wave Basin of the Marine Research Center at the University of Cork, Ireland. The trial was conducted from July 13 to 17, 2015, during which a number of load cases were tested including float
Seatricity had tested the Oceanus technology in the Beaufort Wave Basin of the Hydraulics and Marine Research Centre at the University of Cork from 13th to 17th July. The week was supported by the MARINET FP7 programme – a European Community – Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 “Capacities
Following the successful completion of the initial phase, SeeByte, ASV and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom have been awarded funding to carry out phase two of the Adaptive Autonomous Ocean Sampling Networks (AAOSN) research study. The aim of the project is to reduce the compl
