The Turbine and Engineering Services Division of SIMEC Atlantis Energy, a diversified sustainable energy generation company, has unveiled the design of what’s said to be the world’s largest single rotor tidal turbine – the AR2000.
The European Commission has preselected one tidal energy project for support under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) call for investments in new maritime projects.
US-based wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has elected Kristine Moore as the newest member of its board of directors.
Bombora Wave Power Europe has secured over £10 million in EU funding to build and commercialize its wave energy technology.
The Cape Sharp tidal turbine has started showing signs of life following some month and a half of being disengaged after the liquidation of OpenHydro. However, this is only in terms of environmental monitoring, while the turbine is still disconnected from the electricity grid.
The path that the global energy sector has taken will lead to the investments in renewable energy tripling by 2050, with fossil fuel spending expected to drop by around a third, according to DNV GL.
Hydro Air Concept Energy (HACE), a France-based wave energy technology developer, has informed that its management is planning a new fundraising campaign to ensure the commercial development of its technology.
Magallanes Renovables’ floating tidal turbine is currently being towed from Spain to Scotland, where it will arrive mid-September and embark on a new journey: demonstrating its operational performance at a grid-connected tidal test site.
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from September 3 – 9, 2018.
OPERA, a Horizon 2020 project, has retrieved a bi-radial turbine that was undergoing field tests at Mutriku shoreline wave power plant in Spain and is now preparing to deploy the turbine for open-sea testing at Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP), also in Spain.
Hydro Air Concept Energy (HACE) commissioned its first wave energy converter with multiple oscillating water columns on August 31 in the Atlantic Port of La Rochelle, located in Biscay Bay in western France.
DesignPro Renewables has published an animation, created in cooperation with Norwegian company Rendering.no, that shows DesignPro’s hydrokinetic turbine technology and its transport, deployment and maintenance capabilities.
The European Commission has given its approval to the Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT) tidal energy project to proceed to the next stage that will see an extension of the Bluemull Sound array to six turbines.
Global renewable energy market will close out 2018 with 154.6 GW of new power generation capacity and $228.3 billion in investments, according to the Global Renewable Energy Outlook 2018 report at ResearchAndMarkets.com.
