One of the leading tidal energy experts in UK, Jeremy Smith from the Scottish company QED Naval, has urged the UK government to give the tidal sector dramatically more financial support in order to improve the resilience of the country’s clean energy systems.
The European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson has visited the Eastern Scheldt Tidal Power Plant in Dutch province of Zeeland, to get a glimpse of the future where tidal energy is an everyday part of EU citizens’ lives.
Worldwide dependence on oil and gas has been in evidence ever since the Ukraine crisis started, casting doubt over the pace and the lengths the world is prepared to go to in order to embrace decarbonisation. While the shift to green energy investments is undoubtedly both necessary and inevitable, th
Bombora Wave Power has begun the final test and assembly phase of its mWave device, said to be the world’s most powerful wave energy converter (WEC).
Danny Coles, Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, discusses the importance of tidal energy for the future energy systems and how its predictable nature can compliment other renewable energy sources in the energy mix.
Nova Innovation has hired a UK-based engineering and environmental consultancy RSK Group to lead the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) work for its Enlli tidal project in North Wales.
French green hydrogen technology developer Lhyfe has started working on the installation of an electrolyser on Geps Techno’s hybrid renewable energy platform, which will produce green hydrogen from marine renewable energy sources.
The DIKWE project – being developed by a consortium of French companies including Legendre Group, GEPS Techno, and Ifremer – has seen the deployment of a prototype breakwater equipped with wave energy converters in Sainte Anne-du-Portzic, near Brest.
CorPower Ocean and energy academics from Edinburgh University have completed a rigorous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a wave energy array, showing its global warming potential to be 20-40 times lower than conventional fossil fuel electricity generation.
Minesto has informed that the commissioning results of its Dragon Class tidal power plant in Faroe Islands have verified commercial performance and are fully in line with simulation results.
Scottish company Mocean Energy has begun tank testing models of its 250kW Blue Horizon wave energy machine as part of the EU-funded EuropeWave program.
Ocean Energy Europe has applauded the results of the fourth UK government’s renewables auction, stating that tidal energy can now take its rightful place in the UK’s mainstream electricity supply and calling for EU to follow suit.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has secured UK government support to deliver the next phase of one of the world’s leading tidal power schemes – the MeyGen tidal energy project.
Scottish floating tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power has been awarded two contracts for difference (CfDs) in the latest renewable energy auction scheme in the UK.
