Recent economic study into the cost profile of power from tidal lagoons has found that a portfolio of three UK tidal lagoons, in operation by 2021, would deliver large-scale low carbon power at a significantly cheaper price than offshore wind. Energy economists at Pӧyry, a management consultancy, id
Black Rock Tidal Power (BRTP) has been awarded one of only two demonstration berths by the Nova Scotia Government. The Honourable Andrew Younger, Minister of Energy announecd this at the Nova Scotia Comunity College in Dartmouth on Friday. The company will showcase its innovative technology at the F
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has announced that four Virginia businesses have been selected for awards totaling $860,000 for research having a total value of more than $3 million that will give the Commonwealth a competitive advantage and accelerate the development of offshore wind power and it
Engineers of the GICON Group and the Technical University of Freiberg have conducted further tests on the motion behavior of Gicon’s Floating offshore foundation (GICON ® -SOF). The experiments were carried out in February at the Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems in Duisbu
A subcommittee of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) will hold a workshop on Deepwater Wind’s Block Island offshore wind project on April 3, when it will decide whether to approve the project. “At this workshop, the Subcommittee will render a recommendation of its findings of
Scandinavian Private Equity investor EQT Mid Market has acquired majority (57,5%) in INTPOW partner StormGeo, a leading global provider of software-based decision support for weather sensitive operations at sea. The Strategy is to support StormGeo’s continued growth. As part of the transaction, EQT
FLiDAR N.V., a joint venture established between 3E and DEME group, has been nominated for “Best of 10 years” technology award of Industrie magazine for its floating LiDAR concept. For the realization of this project, a stabilized buoy had to be developed and algorithms that allow reliable measureme
RenewableUK says new statistics published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) prove the case for wind power. Statistics were released covering both 2013 and the final quarter of 2013, and the figures showed increased amounts of renewable energy, with wind foremost, leading to
The extent to which the wave and tidal energy sectors will meet their 2020 objectives will be in direct proportion to the political will to implement the right mechanisms for advancing existing technologies – a study from by the SI Ocean project has found. The Wave & Tidal Energy Strategic Technolog
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) are participating in a European research project that involves developing a new type of tidal energy generator that will be cheaper and more efficient. The device would replace conventional magnetic materials for new materials that are made usi
The video below shows the deployment of a sea spider 200 feet down into Admiralty Inlet to collect data on the conditions and critters of the proposed tidal turbine site. A team from the University of Washington carried out the deployment. A few days ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FE
Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future. Scientists from the University of Exeter have studied how wave energy developers can more accurately measure, and predict the wave conditions within wave
MMT Group has acquired a Kongsberg EM2040D. A 0.4 x 0.7 degree dual head multibeam system has recently been installed on MMT’s long term charted multipurpose support vessel (MPSV) Stril Explorer. This is a highly developed multibeam echo sounder that combines all of the advanced features of deepwate
The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill will deploy two large buoys 20 miles offshore of the coast and 40 miles north and southwest from Cape Hatteras to capture wind, temperature and barometric pressure data for ongoing research on offshore wind energy. The data will also be made avai
