The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated provision of data for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS). The scope of work under the contract that will be awarded through the tender includes the installation, operation,
Minesto has commissioned its 1.2 MW, 25-ton Dragon 12 tidal energy kite, delivering the first electricity to the national grid in the Faroe Islands. Dragon 12 was commissioned in the early morning of February 9 and, according to Minesto, it generated electricity at satisfactory levels in its first p
Swedish-Israeli wave energy developer Eco Wave Power Global (EWP) has announced winning a £1.5 million grant (almost $1.9 million) as a part of a consortium led by UK-based Toshiba and Aquatera, to design a pilot microgrid project for a remote island in Thailand. The grant is a part of round ten of
The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Minesto with 2.8M SEK (approximately $267,000) to support the development and testing of a mooring system for ocean energy deployment. The grant co-funds a project through which Minesto will advance the performance of the next-generation tether system that moors
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two marine energy projects to receive $6 million for the development of a tidal energy research, development, and demonstration pilot site. A team led by Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO), based in Eastsound, Washington, and a team led by ORP
Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage. The £2 million demonstrator initiative, nearing 12 months in the water, has c
The construction of the £24 million substation for the Morlais tidal stream energy project has been completed and the substation has been delivered to site owner Menter Môn Morlais. Civil engineering firm Jones Bros has handed over the substation to Menter Môn Morlais in a move said to signal the su
Australian firm Carnegie Clean Energy has become dual-listed as it had completed U.S. listing on OTC Markets Group’s New York-based OTCQB platform. Under the stock ticker CWGYF, trading and information flow through the OTCQB platform is expected to allow Carnegie to engage with renewable energy-focu
San Bernardino Ocean Power Corporation (SBOPC), an affiliate of Energies PH, has awarded the UK’s Inyanga Marine Energy Group with a contract to build Southeast Asia’s first-ever tidal power generation plant. The project will be located at the remote Capul Island of Northern Samar in the Philippines
The University of Galway has completed testing of a next-generation marine hydrokinetic turbine foil for renewable energy, said to have shown potential for a next-generation marine turbine. The testing program is part of the €3.9 million European Commission’s Horizon 2020-funded CRIMSON project and
France’s Ifremer and HydroQuest have set up a joint laboratory for the development of offshore tidal turbines. Supported by the National Research Agency, the goal of the laboratory is to develop analysis tools and support for the design of tidal turbines adapted to marine constraints. Ifremer and Hy
After validating its technology in European wave basins at a small scale, French start-up Seaturns is now progressing to the next stage by starting tests on a 1:4-scale prototype at the Ste Anne du Portzic site in Brittany, France. Seaturn installed the demonstrator at the Ifremer test site in Octob
Carnegie Clean Energy’s MoorPower demonstration project has started operating at the offshore test site in North Fremantle, Western Australia. The technology is expected to reduce the requirement for fossil fuels, reduce carbon emissions, reduce risk and drive down cost. The MoorPower Demonstrator d
HydroWing, part of Inyaga Marine Energy Group, has developed a new barge aimed at reducing the costs of installing and maintaining its tidal stream array technology. HydroWing was the largest tidal stream project in Wales to be successful in the UK government’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD)
