The UK government has adopted a new framework for managing marine activities around the south coast of England, between Kent and Devon – an area which includes PTEC and Portland Bill tidal plans.
ACEP’s Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy Research Center team is gearing up to undertake oceanographic work on the Alaska North Slope as part of a government-backed multiyear project to evaluate wave and tidal energy potential in the area.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded around $2 million to further advance the development of a wave-powered desalination system, and production of hydrogen for energy storage through osmotic disparity.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy has opened a 30-day public comment period for the Grand Passage tidal demonstration project on the day the PLAT-I tidal energy test platform entered Halifax Port.
The Australian Marine Energy Taskfoce (AMET) is looking for business representatives that would provide guidance for the formation of the country’s virtual marine energy cluster.
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from July 9 – 15, 2018.
East Coast Oil and Gas Engineering (EC-OG) has been named as ‘Rising Star’ at the European Business Awards for the Environment held earlier in the month.
Australian wave developer with offices in Wales – Bombora Wave Power – is seeking a supplier of an air turbine that forms a part of its mWave wave energy converter.
Bristol-based engineering company Blackfish has completed the installation of a lifting platform for the University of Southampton’s Boldrewood marine energy test facility.
A small-scale tidal current turbine demonstrator, being developed by Spanish Seasplace and UK’s Magnomatics, has achieved one third more efficiency during testing than had been previously predicted.
Operating for over 50 years, the Rance tidal power plant – located in the estuary of the Rance River in France – has in 2017 supplied close to third of total energy consumed by the island of Guernsey’s residents.
New technology, said to measure ocean waves and currents with greater accuracy than ever before, is being deployed off the Western Australian coast as part of Wave Energy Research Centre initiative.
Irish company DesignPro Renewables has rescheduled the deployment of its device at the French testing site SEENEOH to accommodate additional improvements on the device expected to be completed before fall this year.
Natron Energy has entered into an evaluation agreement with Electricite De France (EDF) on the potential use of its technology for stationary storage applications in support of the growing use of grid-scale renewables.
