META, Wales’s national marine energy test facility, has recently deployed one of its Sofar Spotter wave buoys at Criterion Jetty tidal test site in Pembroke Dock.
French company EEL Energy is looking to raise up to €2 million in new funding to help advance its tidal energy technology and projects.
CalWave Power Technologies, a California-based developer of wave energy technologies, has joined the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact, a community that works to provide clean energy for all – powered by sustainable solutions.
Rivtide Power, a subsidiary of MWNW Consulting, has been awarded a £100,000 SMART: SCOTLAND feasibility study grant by Scottish Enterprise to further develop its tidal energy technology.
The European Parliament has voted to boost the deployment of renewable energy, setting the goal to increase the share of renewables in the EU’s final energy consumption to 42.5% by 2030.
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have started working with four promising wave energy companies as they prepare to deploy their devices at PacWave South, a new grid-connected wave energy test site off the Oregon coast.
Danish company Resen Waves is looking to sell the company or patent and know-how for its wave energy technology after 12 years of development.
“It’s official, the tidal stream energy market has taken off with 11 companies awarded the contracts for difference,” said Mor Energy, a QED Naval subsidiary company, which has been supported in the latest UK renewables auction round along with Spanish-based Magallanes Renovables which also welcomed
Industry associations, research centers and supported developers have all unanimously welcomed the results of the latest renewables auction in the UK – where 53MW of tidal stream projects won contracts – deeming the outcome a ‘resounding vote of confidence’ in the increasingly mature tidal energy se
Marine Energy Wales has welcomed the announcement that four tidal stream projects, based in Welsh waters, have been given the green light to provide electricity to the National Grid, as part of the latest allocation round of the UK government’s renewable auction.
In its fifth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, the UK has supported 11 tidal energy projects with a record capacity of over 50MW and €11.6 million total ringfenced budget.
The announcement that the UK is to join the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe program has been deemed as excellent news for Europe’s ocean energy sector as it could help enable the deployment of more ocean energy projects in the water, keeping Europe’s competitive edge in this emerging industry.
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has started a series of tank tests of floating wind and wave energy structures at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility to explore the potential benefits the synergy between the two technologies could bring.
Scottish company Mocean Energy has secured €3.74 million in EU funding to develop and deploy a 250kW wave energy device offshore Orkney, as part of the EuropeWave project.
