QED Naval have completed the setup of the performance trials of the ballast system of the Subhub Community Demonstrator. The trials will take place over the next 3 months, initially situated at a sheltered water, low flow site in Castle Ward Bay. The conditions will be progressively increased in mag
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has welcomed Ben Hudson to its team. Hudson joins WES from JBA Consulting, bringing software development skills and experience in metocean data analysis for the renewable energy sector. He will be working with WES’ DTOceanPlus project team. DTOceanPlus is a 3-year project
Finnish wave energy developer AW-Energy has recently received a manufacturing certificate, as proof of technology from Lloyd’s Register. The company’s newest project to convert the energy from ocean waves into an endless source of sustainable electricity using WaveRoller technology is underway off t
Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) is reinforcing its team with a medior/senior marketing & communications professional who will be responsible for a suite of activities spread across three main domains. Successful candidate will work closely with DMEC operational office manager to realise successful
A joint initiative of the H2020 OPERA and INTERREG 2SEAS MET-CERTIFIED projects is setting up a a workshop on certification of marine energy converters. Both the OPERA and MET-CERTIFIED projects have been applying the IEC standards to real world wave and tidal energy deployments. The workshop aims t
SIMEC Atlantis Energy, a sustainable energy generation company, has informed that its tidal energy project MeyGen has exported over 15GWhrs to the grid. According to the company’s social media update, this represent a new record of exported tidal energy to the grid, surpassing the previous record of
SIMEC Atlantis Energy, a global developer of renewable and sustainable energy projects, is looking to recruit a digital designer & communications manager. Namely, the company is seeking a talented digital designer with experience in communications and/or digital marketing to lead on its external com
WavEC Offshore Renewables is seeking to appoint a senior engineer to take the leadership of the Technology and Monitoring team. WavEC is an R&D-based consulting non-profit company dedicated to the development and promotion of marine renewable energy technologies (including wave energy and offshore w
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) has shipped out its commercial RivGen device from Maine to Igiugig Village, Alaska. The RivGen device will be installed in the Kvichak River this summer to provide electricity to the remote community of Igiugig. The device was manufactured at Midcoast Regional Re
Earlier this month, the first consortium meeting was held in Bilbao, which will work in the coming years, until September 30, 2022, in the European project NEMMO (Next Evolution in Materials and Models for Ocean energy) . The project aims to design, model and test small-scale prototypes of larger, l
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Bombora Wave Power has been selected by Enzen to supply a grid connected wave farm to be located in the Atlantic Ocean on the north side of Lanzarote, the fourth largest of the Spanish Canary Islands, off the coast of northern Africa. Enzen has identified that Lanzarote has a large and consistent wa
The Balmoral Subsea Test Centre in Aberdeen has carried out hydrostatic tests on equipment that will be used to monitor the interaction between tidal turbines and marine mammals in the Pentland Firth. The linear actuators that were tested form part of a marine mammal monitoring station anchored to t
Europe continues to lead the world in ocean energy deployments, and last year its tidal projects produced record volumes of electricity, according to yearly statistics published by Ocean Energy Europe. In 2018, European tidal stream installations reached 26.8MW, and wave energy installations 11.3MW.
