Planet Ocean ltd and its Canadian principal, the newly launched Ocean Sonics Ltd are proud to make delivery of the very first ic-Listen-HF, High Frequency Smart Hydrophone to Dr Merin Broudic of Swansea University at a small ceremony on their stand at Oceanology International in London this week. Th
Laurent Beauvais, President of the Basse-Normandie Region and Chairman of the Ports of Normandy Authority, and Patrick Boissier, Chairman and CEO of DCNS, signed a memorandum of understanding at DCNS headquarters in Paris, in the presence of Jean-François Le Grand, President of the Manche Department
Intertek METOC, a specialist marine consultancy, has been selected by ScottishPower Renewables, an Iberdrola company, to provide modelling, survey support and marine expertise for offshore wave and tidal resource assessment. The recent ROC (Renewable Obligation Credits) banding review has already st
Job predictions for renewable industry could have been overestimated, according to STV. The Scottish Government is confident that offshore wind energy has a potential to create 48,000 jobs by 2020. On the other hand, Richard Marsh, director of Edinburgh-based 4-Consulting, claims in his report that
Mansell has won a contract worth £2.6 million with Scira Offshore Energy Ltd to build new facilities providing support for Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. The development at Egmere, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk, includes a two-storey office block, warehouse, car park and bike shelter and Mansell
The international lecture planned at Grand Valley’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center on Friday, March 16, has been canceled. Organizers said Iñigo J. Losada from the University of Cantabria in Spain will not be able to attend due to weather-related travel difficulties and they hope t
NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. (“the Company”) held its Annual General Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 14, 2012. The results of voting on matters put before the Company’s shareholders include: Election of Board of Directors: Philip Hughes (Chair), Michael C. Burns, Joe Houssian, Micha
Aqua Vision BV is proud to host the 9th ADCP Workshop on 20-21 June, 2012. Past workshops have proven to be a huge success and this years’ will be no different. With a host of international speakers, demonstrations of the latest ADCP technology and an array of interactive workshops, it has something
Galileo, a pioneer and global leader in selling customized weather protection has added Ralph Renner, an energy market veteran, to its team. Renner, who will be based in Galileo’s London office, joins from Macquarie Bank where he was Head of European Power Trading. Renner held similar roles in the p
The European Parliament voted today for the first time in favour of setting a binding renewable energy target for 2030. “The Parliament’s vote sends a strong message to the European Council as it prepares its response to the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050”, commented Stephane Bourgeois, H
Vattenfall today announced that it had signed up the last remaining berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Scotland’s world leading ocean energy research and development centre on Orkney to test a Pelamis wave energy converter. Vattenfall’s announcement stated that they hope to start tes
Business leaders have hailed a high-profile recruitment event for military personnel in Scotland as a resounding success for helping to attract skilled people into the subsea industry. Subsea UK’s flagship event, which was held in Moray in conjunction with Kinloss Skills Partnership, provided the re
Energi Coast, North East England’s Renewables Group, has urged the Chancellor to make offshore wind a priority in next week’s Budget to ensure the UK can be placed at the heart of the energy revolution. The group, which is supported by 22 North East England companies from the offshore renewables sup
ThyssenKrupp Mannex GmbH has entered into an agreement with Maritime Offshore Group, a company specializing in offshore engineering, foundations and cable laying, on the exclusive marketing of the innovative offshore foundation “Hexabase”. “The Hexabase foundation is a jacket design which was develo
