Wind
Offshore wind challenge to protect marine mammals using real-time data
Iberdrola affiliate company, Vineyard Wind, has launched a new Startup Challenge calling for innovative ideas that use real-time data to monitor marine mammals in the vicinity of offshore wind farms.
Marine
SINN Power develops floating ocean hybrid platform
The floating ocean hybrid platform can be used “as a complete off-grid energy solution,” generating renewable energy from waves, wind and the sun.
Renewables
WaveBoost project unlocks tidal energy insights
A three-year tidal energy project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 has concluded and been hailed a success by its consortium partners.
Marine
US offers $22m funding for marine energy research
The primary goal of the funding is to increase the likelihood of commercial adoption of marine energy technologies.
Marine
Work starts on Scottish wave energy prototype
Fife-based fabricators AJS Production Ltd will begin fabrication of the 20-metre long Blue Star wave energy converter, designed by Edinburgh start-up Mocean Energy.
Marine
Global wave and tidal stream energy production surges tenfold
Global wave and tidal stream energy production have risen tenfold over the last decade, according to a report issued Ocean Energy Systems (OES).
Marine
Malin Renewables to supply Scotland’s largest wave energy converter
Marine services company Malin Renewables has secured a £1m contract to supply a fifty-tonne wave energy converter.
Europe
How 1.5 MW wave demo project could ‘transform marine energy’
Bombora has now contracted more than 70 per cent of its groundbreaking £17m Pembrokeshire Demonstration Project in Wales.
The project is currently on schedule...
Emissions & Environment
Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition launches to boost offshore wind
An international Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition has been formed to advance sustainable deployment of ocean-based renewable energy and mitigate the harmful impacts of...
Europe
Why combining renewables could ‘transform the market’
Combined wind, wave and solar arrays will ‘transform the marine renewable energy market driving higher capacity and seasonally consistent energy generation’, a conference has heard.
