marine
17 March 2011
Scotland’s government has given the green light to the world’s largest tidal stream energy array, which will be built in the Sound of Islay.
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14 March 2011
Employee-owned UK marine engineers Houlder said they plan to launch their turbine access system, which provides a gateway for offshore wind turbine tower installers, in the third quarter of 2011.
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28 February 2011
Nasdaq-listed wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies is preparing to trial the first of its new generation utility-scale PowerBuoys at sea and seeking further funding to propel it into commercialisation.
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22 February 2011
Scottish marine power technology developer Aquamarine Power has partnered with UK marine drilling specialist Fugro Seacore to install the foundations for its next-generation Oyster 2 wave energy technology in Scotland.
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22 February 2011
Japan-based technology producer Eco Marine Power is to develop a solar and wind-powered marine power system especially for ships and other ocean vessels.
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18 February 2011
UK-based marine surveyor Emu, whose portfolio includes the London Array wind farm, has increased its annual turnover by over 100 per cent, reflecting the growing demand in the country to fulfil offshore wind projects leased under The Crown Estate’s third leasing round.
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8 February 2011
Carnegie Wave Energy has successfully commissioned an onshore hydraulic test rig at its demonstration plant at Fremantle, near Perth in Western Australia.
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3 February 2011
Dutch technology developer Tocardo has installed and commissioned its first bi-directional marine energy turbine at its testing facilities in Den Oever, the Netherlands.
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2 February 2011
Marine service provider The Briggs Group has secured a new five-year subsea cable agreement with Scottish and Southern Energy, as it prepares to capture a slice of the expanding offshore clean power market in Scotland.
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24 January 2011
Wave power device developer Checkmate Seaenergy is looking to raise about £18m over the next five years as it moves towards commercialisation, NewNet has learned.
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13 January 2011
The Chief Minister of East Indian state Gujarat, Narendra Modi, has given the green light to a 50MW tidal power project to be constructed in the Gulf of Kutch that may quintuple in capacity in the future.
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11 January 2011
Marine energy developer Ocean Power Technologies has received independent certification for its utility-scale PowerBuoy device from Lloyd’s Register.
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7 January 2011
Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has secured funding from the Irish government to develop site-specific wave energy devices off the coast of Ireland.
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24 August 2010
A flagship test centre for wave and tidal energy machines, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), has increased its capacity by a third in a £5m expansion.
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18 August 2010
Tidal energy project developer Ocean Renewable Power Company’s (ORPC) Beta Power System in Maine, which it said is the largest ocean energy generator ever installed in US waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power.
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17 August 2010
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) said its SeaGen technology may be the first tidal power system to meet the power generation criteria for the UK government’s Marine Renewables Deployment Fund.
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17 August 2010
Norwegian tidal power developer Hammerfest Strøm has issued a round of contracts worth in the region of £4m for companies to construct the first of its advanced HS1000 tidal energy turbines in Scotland.
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17 August 2010
UK-based wave energy company Aquamarine Power is exploring the potential for installing a small demonstration wave power project off the west coast of Lewis in Scotland.
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12 August 2010
Marine energy project developer Atlantis Resources has deployed the world’s largest tidal energy turbine at a facility at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland.
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3 August 2010
With the installation of the South West Regional Development Agency’s Wave Hub marine energy project already underway, CEO of Ocean Power Technologies Charles Dunleavy tells NewNet that competition in the marine energy industry needs to be fostered to ensure its development going forward.
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