Greece-based Asso.subsea has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eunice Energy Group for cooperation on the 2 GW electrical interconnection between Greece and Egypt. The project is being developed by the transnational GAP Consortium, founded by Eunice Energy Group, and is aiming to contr
NKT has completed the power cable systems connecting six offshore oil and gas platforms located at Utsira High to the onshore power supply. This is said to play a central role in reducing carbon emissions from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) with 1.2 million tonnes annually. NKT has provided t
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has opened applications for the fifth annual Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC), which aims to prepare the future workforce for the marine energy industry.
The largest European center for sea trials entirely dedicated to floating wind power and marine renewable energies called the OPEN-C Foundation has been set up in France by major industry players.
As informed, the new consortium is dedicated to developing innovative, zero-emission solutions for the future of passenger ships. The project, named Sea Zero, has been awarded €7 million in public funding and has a total budget of €13 million going into this research and development phase.
The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has launched a new competition for developers investigating novel technologies for harnessing and converting the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.
The governments of the UK and France have signed a new agreement committing to greater cooperation on energy resilience and low-carbon technologies, which could potentially support a rise in electricity interconnection by two thirds. The Statement of Cooperation on Energy was signed on 10 March by t
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced £750,000 (€850,000) for research projects focusing on deployment of tidal lagoon technology as part of Tidal Lagoon Challenge.
Scottish company Nova Innovation has installed its tidal energy turbine at the Étel Estuary, bringing its turbines to France for the first time.
300 terawatt hours (TWh) of green hydrogen could potentially be produced using electricity from offshore wind farms in the North Sea by 2050, and used not only to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors but also to boost the security of energy supply in Europe, a new study has shown. The “Specification of
Nexans has completed the last pull-in of the subsea interconnector cable between the island of Crete and the Greek mainland. Nexans is in charge of the design, manufacture and installation of the 335-kilometer subsea HVDC cable system for Ariadne Interconnection, owned by Greece’s state grid operato
Four European companies have teamed up to launch an association to promote the potential and the development of osmotic energy called Osmotic Energy for the European Union (OE4EU).
Infrastructure system operators GASCADE and Fluxys have highlighted the significant advantages of an offshore hydrogen backbone in the North and Baltic Seas in the ‘Specification of a European Offshore Hydrogen Backbone’ study commissioned to the classification society DNV. According to the companie
The UK government has confirmed the £205 million budget for renewable energy projects in the fifth round of contracts for difference (CfD) auction, which features plans to cut the tidal stream ring-fence from £20 million to £10 million.
