An ambitious collaborative project to power subsea equipment with wave power and subsea energy storage, led jointly by Mocean Energy and Verlume with other consortium partners, has taken to the seas in the north of Scotland.
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University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) has secured C$1 million ($730,000) grant to progress a renewable energy microgrid project incorporating a wave energy device on Nootka Island in British Columbia.
Norwegian company Ocean Oasis has secured funding from the existing and new investors that will be used to further develop its wave energy-driven desalination technology.
Swedish company CorPower Ocean has completed load-out and towing trials for its C4 wave energy device, ahead of upcoming deployment offshore Portugal.
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is busy with bringing forward its Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), a floating wind and wave energy technology test site which has been in development for several years now.
Norwegian company Havkraft has teamed up with a consultancy Translucidus to develop wave energy projects in Oman.
Swedish company Minesto has signed a collaboration agreement with Taiwan Cement Green Energy (TCCGE) to pursue tidal and ocean current energy buildout in Taiwan.
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Singapore-based company Hann-Ocean Energy has launched its third-generation Drakoo wave energy device for a new round of sea trials at Shengsi archipelago in China.
Nexans has secured a contract to provide subsea cables for the PacWave South site, the United States’ first grid-connected wave energy test facility located offshore Oregon.
Danish company Wavepiston has opened its crowdfunding campaign for overfunding after reaching the initial target of €1.4 million in only one week after the launch of the campaign.
Irish company OceanEnergy has concluded the latest round of tank testing of its scaled OE35 wave energy device model at Lir-National Ocean Test Facility (Lir NOTF) as part of the WEDUSEA project.
The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) and the EU-SCORES project partners have recently held a two-day stakeholder engagement event on energy multi-use parks at the Marine Energy Hub in the Hague, spotlighting the benefits of combining different offshore renewable energy sources at one site.
