The Great Southern – a region in Western Australia – has stepped closer to fulfilling its wave energy ambitions after the Albany Visitor Centre was announced as the location for the Wave Energy Research Centre.
Finnish developer AW-Energy has secured €5 million from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program to develop a power take-off (PTO) unit for 1MW wave energy device.
Portugal-based engineering consultancy Cruz Atcheson has announced the expansion of its Lisbon premises to prepare for the ongoing recruitment drive.
University of Limerick (UL) has launched an innovative underwater robot that will be used to inspect, repair and maintain marine renewable energy facilities.
QED Naval has secured full funding for sea trials of its Subhub tidal turbine foundation platform. A testing programme is planned to be carried out in the summer of 2018, when the developer will deploy a community scale Subhub in Strangford Lough at the Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) tidal test si
The MaRINET2 project has awarded €1.1 million to 32 offshore renewable technology developers from 17 countries. The funds will provide 583 days of testing and research at facilities around Europe, and accelerate the next generation of energy technologies towards the marketplace.
Representatives from Minesto, Nova Innovation, Marine Power Systems, ORE Catapult and many other companies and organisations from the marine energy sector are participating in Marine Energy Wales Conference 2018 today, 19 April, in Cardiff.
Subsea Energy Solutions has delivered a part of the subsea equipment package for Minesto’s Deep Green tidal energy project at the Holyhead Deep, and is currently working on the production of the rest of the order.
Global ocean energy sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.5% during the period between 2018 and 2022, according to Technavio’s report Global Ocean Power Market 2018-2022.
Swedish wave energy company Seabased has raised almost 70% of its minimum target in a crowdfunding campaign launched on March 16 and running until May 6. The company had set the maximum goal for the campaign at some $1.8 million (SEK 15 million), while the minimum target is approximately $600,000 (S
The fourth EU Energy Summit, which gathered 500 politicians and business representatives in Brussels on April 12, featured a plenary session that saw the speakers highlighting the significance of blue energy (renewable energy sourced from rivers, seas and oceans) in the energy transition.
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from April 9 – 15, 2018.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy has issued two permits to Big Moon Power (BMP) for a tidal electricity project in the Bay of Fundy, granting an off-grid testing of a 100kW prototype and phased installation of a 5MW tidal energy project.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the US Department of Energy intends to issue a funding call for marine and hydrokinetic technology advancement and data dissemination sometime soon, not excluding this month (April).
