
Canadian hydrokinetic power technology developer Instream Energy Systems has appointed Dave Dennis as its president and CEO.

U.S.-based company Oscilla Power has made progress with final assembly operation of its Triton-C wave energy device that will soon be deployed offshore Hawaii.

Scottish tidal energy companies Nova Innovation and SIMEC Atlantis Energy have entered into collaboration agreement with the goal of delivering more UK-built tidal turbines in the water, turbo charging the tidal industry.

Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean has reached the finals of the $1 Million Ocean Innovation Prize organized by the Blue Climate Initiative (BCI).

Dutch tidal energy company Tocardo has sent off three of its T-1 tidal turbines towards Pembroke Dock where they will be installed on QED Naval’s Subhub community-scale platform.

Inyanga Maritime is developing a new dynamically-positioned (DP2) multi-purpose vessel (MPV) Inyanga Entsha that will be used to install HydroWing technology combined with Tocardo’s tidal turbines.

Five Portuguese institutions – CEiiA, +ATLANTIC CoLAB, Fórum Oceano, INESC TEC, and WavEC – have have come together under the name of OceanACT to promote the testing of innovative ocean technologies in Portugal.

Industry body Scottish Renewables has issued a publication outlining steps that the Scottish Government should take to reach the energy transition.

Engineering consultancy for offshore renewable energy Yavin Four Consultants (Y4) has set out on a recruitment spree seeking fresh talent in Portugal, Italy and Ireland.

New research led by the University of Plymouth has shown that tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of the UK’s current annual electricity and play a significant role in the government’s drive for net-zero.

Eco Wave Power has visited the Port of Casablanca and Port of Mohammedia in Morocco to discuss the implementation of its wave energy technology in the National Port Agency (NPA).

Scottish marine energy company QED Naval has launched invitation to tenders to fast-track the commercialisation and scale-up of its next generation Subhub tidal energy platform.

Ingine’s Vietnamese subsidiary, Ingine Pacific, has been granted funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its renewable energy project.

Massive investment announcements and ambitious new developments in the energy and shipping sectors marked this week on Offshore Energy (well, together with our Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference), as work on the global energy transition is moving forward through numerous new initiatives.