Ocean Energy

Scotrenewables Rebrands as Orbital Marine Power and Prepares for New Turbine Build

Thursday, 25 October 2018 Dan McCue Scotrenewables Tidal Power has undergone a company-wide rebranding to Orbital Marine Power. The new name is inspired by the orbital cycle of the moon around the earth, the reliable provider of tidal energy. ...

CorPower Completes Stage 3 Demonstration in Orkney

Tuesday, 09 October 2018 Dan McCue After 18 months of combined dry and ocean testing of the C3 Wave Energy Converter, CorPower and project partners have taken important steps towards proving commercial viability of wave energy. By verifying ...

Oregon Wave Energy Test Site Rebranded as PacWave

Monday, 17 September 2018 REM The Pacific marine energy Center South Energy Test Site—a first of its kind, Energy Department-funded, grid-connected, full-scale test facility for wave energy conversion technologies—will operate ...

Minesto Successfully “Flies” marine energy Kite

Thursday, 30 August 2018 REM Following a thorough commissioning program of the company’s first device of the Deep Green technology at utility scale, which generates clean electricity from tidal streams and ocean currents, Swedish ...

Innovate UK funded project tests integrated subsea cable monitoring system at EMEC

Wednesday, 29 August 2018 Robin Whitlock An Innovate UK funded project focused on developing a smart integrated monitoring system for offshore energy subsea cables has drawn to a close following successful tests at the European marine energy ...

Scotrenewables Tidal Achieves Record Level of Power Generation

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 REM Scotrenewables Tidal Power has set another record with its first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine with the unit clocking up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European ...

Enel and Carnegie Clean Energy to Collaborate on Wave Energy Generator Development

Friday, 03 August 2018 REM Enel Green Power and Australian renewable developer Carnegie Clean Energy Limited have signed a Collaboration Agreement aimed at developing and testing CCE’s CETO 6 wave energy generator. Under the agreement, ...

OES Releases Spotlight on Ocean Energy Report

Friday, 27 July 2018 REM Ocean Energy Systems, an intergovernmental collaboration consisting of over 20 member countries including the United States, has released the Spotlight on Ocean Energy report, which provides detailed ...

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 ...

EMEC issue performance statement following dry testing of CorPower WEC

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 Robin Whitlock

The European marine energy Centre (EMEC) has issued a performance statement following dry testing of CorPower’s wave energy converter (WEC) in Stockholm.