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UK-based geotechnical specialist Ternan Energy is supporting CorPower within the UMACK (Universal Mooring, Anchor & Connectivity Kit) demonstration project. Ternan is providing geotechnical and...

Two consortia have secured just under £1 million funding from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) to demonstrate the potential of new applications of materials to bring down the cost of wave power. Consultant...

 Malin Renewables has recently received the steel to kick off the fabrication works for AWS Ocean Energy’s Archimedes Waveswing wave power generation device. In February this year, Malin...

Irish company DesignPro Renewables said it has achieved new performance milestones with its hydrokinetic turbine as part of ongoing testing at the SEENEOH test site in Bordeaux, France. The turbine...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are working with industry, tribal, government, and national laboratory partners to more effectively harness Alaska’s marine energy resources....

ETIP Ocean and DTOceanPlus have rescheduled the webinar aimed to describe the general concepts of the ocean energy systems Structured Innovation Design Tool, its practical implementation, and future...

SIMEC Atlantis Energy has been awarded a £1.5 million grant from the Scottish Government’s Saltire Tidal Energy Challenge Fund to develop a subsea tidal turbine connection hub for the next phase of...

The energy transition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. A large part of the energy transition takes place at sea and sustainable innovations reshape the maritime sector. Our communities,...

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney recently became a supporting member of the Australian Ocean Energy Group (AOEG). UNSW’s involvement in this initiative was led by Dr François Flocard,...

Europe still leads the world in tidal energy installations, and European tidal stream projects generated 50 per cent more electricity in 2019 than the year before, according to statistics released by...

Europe still leads the world in tidal energy installations, and European tidal stream projects generated 50% more electricity in 2019 than the year before, according to statistics released today by Ocean Energy Europe.

European tidal stream capacity continued to climb in 2019, reaching 27.…

Due to the impacts and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) has been postponed to 2021. The event was scheduled to take place on May 19-21, 2020...

Fife fabricators AJS Production has kicked off work on Mocean Energy’s Blue Star wave energy prototype, which is scheduled to be deployed in Orkney this autumn. The 20-metre-long device will...

Eco Wave Power (EWPG Holding) has installed a new combined wave and solar system in the EWP grid connected wave energy power station in Gibraltar. Eco Wave Power integrated eight solar panels on the...

Saipem and Equinor have signed a cooperation agreement to develop a floating solar panel park technological solution for near coastal applications. As reported earlier, the technology will be based...

Renewable Risk Advisers (RRA) has secured a framework agreement for insurance broker services from marine energy developer Minesto. The deal, valid for three years with possibility to extend it one...

The Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project 2nd call for applications for ocean energy demonstration will close on the 30th of April 2020. Applications can benefit from an early...

Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has reported net loss for 2019 of close to SEK 126 million ($12.5 million), mostly related to one-off writedowns of previously capitalised technology...

Ocean energy solutions company Bombora has recently been announced as a finalist in the ‘Wales STEM Awards’, shortlisted for the ‘STEM Start-Up of the Year Award’. Bombora is among 42 innovative...

Through its Interreg 2 Seas Programme, Europe has awarded €5.9 million to the ENCORE project: Energising Coastal Regions with Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). The goal of the project is to advance...

To inspire transforming saltwater into drinking water using wave energy to power the process, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) launched the Waves to Water...

WavEC Offshore Renewables has temporarily closed its office given the current COVID-19 pandemic situation. Following the official recommendations and the World Health Organization, WavEC has...

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has said that due to the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, as of today, 17 March 2020, the Orkney Renewable and Innovation Campus (ORIC) will restrict...

Australian company Wave Swell Energy (WSE) has said it is still on schedule to install a pilot-scale wave energy converter off the coast of King Island, Tasmania by the middle of 2020. According to...

Swedish marine energy developer Minesto said that so far it has had no negative impact related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on incoming components and subsystem deliveries. The major kite...

Global wave and tidal stream energy production has risen tenfold over the last decade, according to a report issued by Ocean Energy Systems (OES). Ocean Energy Systems (OES) annual report shows...

Marine energy developer Eco Wave Power has finalized the wave simulation testing of the fully integrated EWP conversion unit for its Jaffa Port expansion project. The testing will be followed by...

The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has hosted a couple of visits during the month of March at its facilities. Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) of...

Ireland-Wales cooperation programme, the Selkie project, is inviting tidal energy developers to tender their services to validate multi-use engineering tools, templates, standards and models, which...

France Energies Marines (FEM) said that due to the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic, its third Scientific & Technical Tribune dedicated to offshore renewable energy (ORE) has been postponed....

Engineering technologies company Renishaw has collaborated with the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) in Canada, to produce two ocean turbine parts using additive manufacturing for industrial...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is hosting a challenge for university students to advance marine energy. The DOE Water Power Technologies Office will host the first Marine Energy Collegiate...

Ocean Power Technologies, Modus Seabed Intervention and Saab Seaeye are working on a new solution for carbon-free subsea autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) residency – long-term, persistent...

DNV GL has awarded a conformity statement to Norwegian solar energy company Ocean Sun for its floating solar design methodology. The conformity statement is the first of its kind and was issued...

The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has launched its tidal energyfassasafsafto advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. This second...

SIMEC Atlantis Energy said that its 6MW tidal energy project MeyGen has now exported 26 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity to the national grid. To remind, MeyGen exported over 13.8GWh of...

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has reported revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2020 of $725,000, an increase of $457,000 as compared to $268,000 for the prior-year period. The increase was...

Marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group said it has made further progress into the growing floating solar photovoltaic market in Asia and Europe. Post the acquisition of INNOSEA in 2018, LOC has...

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) is currently seeking applications for a Project Director to lead on the exciting Mersey Tidal Power project, based in Liverpool City Region. The...

SEA Wave and WESE have launched an online platform, MARENDATA, to share environmental monitoring data collected within the marine energy industry. Co-funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries...

SmartBay Ireland is looking to recruit a finance administrator. A key aspect of the role will involve financial reporting and the maintenance of accounts and budgets. The role will incorporate the...

Spanish renewable energy company ACCIONA has recently started building the first grid-connected floating photovoltaic solar plant in Spain. This initiative is a demonstration project, created with...

 The NEMMO project has recently installed a set of tidal turbine blade panels made from fibreglass and a gel-coat coating for testing at the HarshLab facility. The samples, taken from the current...

Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has partnered with ABB to bring clean energy from the oceans. CorPower has developed a prototype in the form of a buoy that takes wave power and turns it...

The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has recently produced two new deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector. The deliverables correspond to the technical manuals of the...

HR Wallingford has reportedly developed a sophisticated fish collision model for the tidal power industry which predicts collision rates more accurately than ever before by incorporating the real...

Scottish firm Ecosse IP (EIP) has announced the arrival of its latest product, Mass of Water Turbine (MOWT), designed to generate energy from slow-moving water. The MOWT technology, patent-pending,...

Tokio Marine has signed a purchase agreement to acquire renewable energy risks specialist GCube. GCube is one of the world’s largest underwriters of renewable energy, covering wind, solar, bio,...

Transition is a fact of life. Be it in your personal circumstances, as a company, but even as an industry. The need to innovate and transition to a new outlook are key in remaining relevant and...

Swedish wave power company Ocean Harvesting Technologies (OHT) has become member of Norway’s GCE Ocean Technology. Since 2017, the Swedish company has been focusing on InfinityWEC. Each...

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) said that that Eni has extended its lease of a PB3 PowerBuoy for an additional 18 months. OPT has also been contracted for an additional scope of work to provide a...

Clean energy specialists EC-OG has completed a six-figure investment in its HALO subsea energy storage technology. The bulk of the investment, in CNC battery cell welding equipment and automated...

The technology group Wärtsilä, together with a consortium of six other industry and academic partners, has been awarded EU funding for a major project aimed at reducing fuel consumption and lowering...

Ocean Power Technologies has signed a letter of intent with Taiwan-based BAP Precision (BAP) to provide PowerBuoy joint surveillance solutions for government agency contract pursuits for policing...

Ocean energy solutions company Bombora has launched a tender with aim to hire a contractor for the fabrication of the intervention tool structure for the mWave wave energy converter demonstrator. The...

Atlantis said that Andrew Dagley has stepped down as chief finance officer (CFO). Dagley will remain an executive director on the board of Atlantis and will lead the financing of the Uskmouth waste...

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has announced that the prototype for its newest product, the hybrid PowerBuoy, is in production at its New Jersey facility. The hybrid PowerBuoy will offer remote power...

The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program is preparing to announce its first call for Requests for Technical Support (RFTS) and now has an official website and...

The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) have partnered to make new funding available to support growth of...

ETIP Ocean and DTOceanPlus project is hosting a webinar to describe the general concepts of the ocean energy systems Structured Innovation Design Tool, its practical implementation, and future work....

To elaborate on the importance and potential of marine energy for the Netherlands and what is needed politically to support this, DMEC and EWA set up the position paper "Energy from Water". After discussions with Dutch members of Parliament, the position paper was presented at the debate on the D…

Today, January 15th, 2018, the MaRINET2 test project opens its second call for applications. MaRINET2 is the second iteration of the successful EU-funded MaRINET Infrastructures Network, which facilitates transnational access to test centres and knowledge institutes around Europe for technology d…

MaRINET2 has opened the registrations for the first set of a total of ten courses on offshore renewable energy to be delivered over the next three years. The short, two to five days long courses for industry and academic researchers in the offshore renewable energy sector are organised and lectur…

The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) is a service provider to the marine energy sector. We deliver technical and commercial support to companies in order to fast-track their technological development plans and growth strategies. Our services include design and engineering support, demonstration …

The FORESEA project will launch a call for proposals from developers of offshore energy supply technologies at the Offshore Energy 2017 event which takes place in Amsterdam on 10-11 October. The call aims to help developers of offshore and sub-sea technologies adapt their products for use in the …

Bluerise is a specialist developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology. Allseas will contribute engineering resources and know-how to bring OTEC concepts to market.

Allseas has acquired Bluerise, a specialist developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology t…

October 31, 2018

Edinburgh, UK – The relevance of certification in accessing commercial finance for marine energy technologies was subject of a workshop organized by the MET-CERTIFIED project as part of the Ocean Energy Europe 2018 Conference.

Ecole Centrale de Nantes, member of the FORESEA consortium, invites you to participate in an industry consultation conducted by Cruz Atcheson. The aim is to help FORESEA test sites meet the industry's requirements, both in terms of infrastructure and services. The FORESEA project is an Interreg N…

DMEC and Navingo established a strategic partnership for the upcoming Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference event, which will take place on the 10th and 11th of October in the Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam. This event draws over 600 exhibitors from around the world, and has 12,000 visitors…

After a run-up of several months, the finale of the Making Waves pitch event is here. On the 7th of September, the selected innovations from a variety of the Netherlands' most innovative sectors - including gathered at the Breezanddijk on the Afsluitdijk to pitch their ideas to a large audience o…

The Dutch Marine Energy Centre is looking for an Office Manager & Project Assistent to join their current team. The Office Manager & Project Assistent will support the team on an organisational, administrative and financial level. More specifically, the function includes the following act…

Last Thursday the 7th of September, 17 high-potential Dutch organisations pitched their tech-based innovations at the Making Waves pitch event. Four innovations received invitations for the semi-final of Ideas from Europe in Estonia in 2018, amongst which two marine energy developers: Slow Mill a…

Dutch OTEC developer Bluerise will start a crowdfunding campaign on the 19th of October to raise money for the next stage of their technology development. Over the past few years, Bluerise has been developing their OTEC technology by building demonstration and pilot systems at Delft University of…

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De maatregelen die het kabinet eind vorige week presenteerde om in 2050 een CO2-vrij elektriciteitssysteem te realiseren, zetten terecht volop in op de hernieuwbare bronnen energie uit wind (windmolens op zee …

The 3rd International Workshop on Wave & Tidal Energy will be held on the 20th - 23rd of November this year in Valvidia, Chile. The Workshop provides a wide and interdisciplinary perspective on the current development of marine energy. Attendees of the event - including researchers, scientist…

On October 11, Teamwork Technology - supported by DMEC - WavEC Offshore Renewables, Sines Tecnopolo and APS (Ports of Sines and the Algarve Authority) signed a Letter of Intent for the set up of a basic sea testing facility for wave energy. The signing took place on the occasion of the State Vis…

To stimulate Dutch maritime innovation, MARIN invites SMEs to test their new ideas and concepts for free. MARIN offers the same opportunity again for 2018. The initiative aims at stimulating innovation in the Dutch maritime sector and lowering the threshold for SMEs to test their new ideas and co…

The EU-funded MaRINET2 project launched its Virtual Access Service today. The service provides researchers and technology developers with remote access to datasets gathered by offshore renewable energy research centres. It will help improve the standard of research across Europe in the offshore r…

In October, DMEC hosted the Dutch Marine Energy Pavilion at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference event in Amsterdam. Together with 14 startups, technology developers, knowledge institutes and test centres, we presented the potential of marine energy to over 12,000 visitors and exhibito…

On 21 June, the Marine Tech Expo takes place in Plymouth, UK. The day before, 20 June, the MET-CERTIFIED project organises a visit to 3 test sites in Falmouth and Plymouth:

DMEC is happy to announce the approval of the Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) project. In this four-year project eight partners will combine their marine energy expertise to deliver integrated technical and commercial support services to forty technology developers in north-west Europe. The partners…

With two key hires Tocardo Tidal Power has strengthened its Managing Board. Mr. Henk Kasteleijn has joined Tocardo as Chief Financial and Operating Officer. Henk brings over 20 years of general and financial management experience with two leading multinationals in the innovative technology sector…

DMEC intends to establish a three-year agreement for the management of our test sites and related support activities in the area of administration, licensing and technology development.

This tender will be conducted via the multiple-party procedure and will not be sub-divided between parti…

We are reinforcing our team with a medior/senior passionate marketing & communications professional who will be responsible for a suite of activities spread across three main domains. You will work closely with our operational office manager to realise successful implementation of the activit…