Ocean Energy

Naval Energies Stops Investment in Tidal Turbines

Wednesday, 01 August 2018 Dan McCue

France’s Naval Energies has decided to stop investing in the field of tidal turbines and concentrate its efforts on floating wind turbines and Marine Thermal Energy Conversion

Wave Energy Scotland Awards Research Contracts

Thursday, 19 July 2018 REM Wave Energy Scotland is awarding contracts with a total value of $1.8 million (£1.4 million) to three innovation projects designed to support further investigation of promising structural materials and ...

Sustainable Marine Energy Preparing to Ship Tidal Energy Platform to Nova Scotia

Monday, 25 June 2018 Dan McCue Sustainable Marine Energy’s PLAT-I tidal energy platform, hosting four Schottel hydro SIT 250 turbines, has successfully completed the first phase of its testing program at Connel, on the West coast ...

ITEG project launched in Orkney, Scotland

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 Robin Whitlock An 11 million euro Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project has been launched in Orkney in order to develop an all-in-one solution for the generation of clean predictable energy, grid management, and the ...

Energy Department Selects Six Awardees for $6.7 Million

Monday, 11 June 2018 Dan McCue The US Department of Energy will provide a total of $6.7 million in federal funding to six recipients for development of innovative technologies capable of generating electricity from U.S. water resources. ...

hydroQuest and CMN to Commission Tidal Turbine in 2019

Thursday, 07 June 2018 Dan McCue hydroQuest, a French turbine manufacturer, and its equity partner CMN (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie), have announced plans to set up, commission, and connect the “hydroQuest Ocean” turbine ...

US Department of Energy to Fund Marine Energy Projects

Tuesday, 01 May 2018 REM The US Department of Energy is making up to $23 million available to advance innovative marine energy technologies. The DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will fund research and evaluation ...

Western Australia

Western Australia to Become Wave Energy Research Hub

Thursday, 26 April 2018 REM

The Albany Visitor Centre, located in Western Australia, will be the location of a new Wave Energy Research Centre.

AWE secures MegaRoller EU research & innovation funding

Tuesday, 24 April 2018 Robin Whitlock The EU Horizon2020 programme has provided a total of 5 million euros of grant funding for AW-Energy’s Megaroller project which is focusing on the development of a Power Take-Off unit for a 1 MW wave ...

Columbia Engineers Develop Floating Solar Fuels Rig for Seawater Electrolysis

Friday, 12 January 2018 REM Daniel Esposito, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been studying water electrolysis—the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel—as a way to convert ...