Waves4Power has introduced a new company profile with a new logo and visual branding as it enters the next stage of development with the next generation WaveEL systems. The updated brand identity communicates more power and industrial strength, as well as commitment to the future, the company noted.
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC), and Oregon State University (OSU) are hosting an integrated wave energy converter (WEC) design workshop in September. The workshop will take place at Oregon State University on September 16 and 17, 2019. During the two day
The Ocean Energy Systems Technology Collaboration Programme (OES) has published its 2018 Annual Report of national policies, research and technology demonstration on ocean energy in its member countries. The report also presents the achievements and progress made by each of the OES members throughou
A £2.4 million engineering research facility will seek to speed the development of materials and structures for tidal energy, transport and other industries. The FASTBLADE facility will test new materials within full scale structures such as tidal blades, plane components and bridge sections. It wil
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced a winner of the Novel Concepts for Large-scale 3D Printing Challenge, one of several crowd-sourcing campaigns in the Manufacturing Innovator Challenge. The Manufacturing Innovator Challenge consis
EEW has completed the paint job for the main components of the NEMOS’ Ostend research tower. The Ostend research tower is a test platform being developed by German developer NEMOS and Belgian POM West-Vlaanderen to ensure the infrastructure supports the development needs for offshore wind, tidal and
MegaRoller project has reached a milestone by completing an advanced custom structure interaction Wave Energy Converter (WEC) model. The MegaRoller project is an EU-funded research program over the period 2018-2021. The project will develop and demonstrate a 1 MW power take-off (PTO) for wave energy
Students from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen (HVL) are doing their bachelor theses with topics based on Waveco’s wave energy technology. In February this year, eight students and their supervisor visited Waveco’s cooperative enterprises Stadt Towing Tank AS and Easy Form AS
The potential of the UK’s tidal and wave power sectors is laid out in a new report which has been delivered by the UK Marine Energy Council and Scottish Renewables. It also sets out an economic blueprint for the sectors, which remain “effectively locked out of the UK energy market”. Sue Barr, Chair
Ocean energy can answer some challenging policy question, but it will require both industry and government to consider marine energy. For this to happen, marine energy companies need to speak with unified voice and focus more on solutions than on problems as the government and investors need more pr
AUSTEn has progressed the $5.8 million tidal energy research project and is on track to provide the detailed information needed to stimulate tidal energy investment in Australia. Since the AUSTEn project began the 11-strong team has carried out two field campaigns, mapped 200 sq km of sea floor, and
AMOG Consulting is seeking installation services for a power cable project (PCP) as part of its wave energy device test offshore Cornwall, UK. The PCP is to be carried out at the FabTest site in Falmouth Bay. AMOG has secured a grant through Marine-i program that will enable the company to test its
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Irish consultancy Data Only Greater has delivered the second version of the wave and tidal energy arrays design tool DTOcean. DTOcean 2.0 is the product of 18 months of development by Data Only Greater while partnering with Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy, National Nuclear Secur
