The Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, N.C., recently hosted Resolute Marine Energy for a full-scale test and evaluation of their surge wave energy converter (WEC). Resolute Marine Energy is a Boston, Mass.-based company developing technologies t
Despite the considerable challenges and bottlenecks faced by China’s offshore wind power market, the country’s efforts in technologies for development of offshore wind power have remained strong. Thanks to years of coordination and cooperation between the government and domestic offshore wind power
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new major contract worth in excess of € 350 million by Alstom Grid for the connection project DolWin3 linking offshore wind farms in the North Sea to mainland Germany on behalf of the Dutch-German grid
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS, which is indirectly owned on a 50/50 basis by Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA, has been awarded a contract by the German company SIEMENS AG for installation work of 80 turbines at the “Butendiek” offshore wind power plant off Germany’s North Sea coast. The contract commen
RenewableUK has welcomed comments made by the Energy and Climate Change Minister Gregory Barker in his opening speech at the trade association’s Annual Wave and Tidal Conference in London, in which he declared that “now is the time for the next bold steps – moving from individual projects to large s
Intertek Energy & Water consultancy services (formerly Metoc), the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, is providing marine advisory services for offshore surveys and export cable installation to Réseau de Transporte d’Electricité (RTE) for two French offshore wind projects. R
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, announced the award of a $1.27m AusIndustry grant from the Clean Technology Innovation Program to support a CETO Seawater Desalination Demonstration Pilot Plant. The award of the funding supports the design and construction of a CETO Desalination P
The Examining Authority has issued its recommendation to the Secretary of State on Able’s proposed Marine Energy Park. The Planning Inspectotate’s (PINS) recommendation and a final decision on the project, which consists of a quay on the Humber Estuary to support offshore wind farm construction in t
Sea Generation Wales Ltd has been awarded a share of £20 million funding under the government’s Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD), launched in April last year, to support the development and testing of pre-commercial marine devices in array formations out at sea. Besides Sea Generation
Tidal Transit Limited has just achieved ISO 14001, the internationally recognised Environmental Management Standard for business. The certification defines controls for any activity that has an effect on the environment, including the use of natural resources, handling and treating of waste and ener
Pelamis Wave Power has been awarded a £1.4m project from The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to fund development work to enhance the cost-effectiveness of wave energy converter arrays in UK waters. The funding will support the first phase of work this year ahead of a larger demonstration program
MeyGen has been awarded a capital grant of £10 million by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Meygen will use the grant to further develop its Demonstration Array via the Marine Energy Accelerator Developer (MEAD) process which started in March 2012. The MeyGen project is the largest
Transmission System Operator TenneT has awarded the DolWin3 offshore project in North Sea to Alstom. Windreich AG marks this contract for DolWin3, with a total investment of more than one billion euros, as another important component for the success of the energy transition. TenneT, together with th
Centrica, in its preliminary results for 2012 which were published today, has disclosed the information that the company is in discussions with a financial partner and the UK Government concerning the economic framework for the Race Bank offshore wind farm project. The company was granted planning c
