Press release: FORESEA awards support to ten ocean energy technology developers
The FORESEA (Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action) Programme has awarded a ‘Recommendation for Support’ to ten ocean energy technology developers. The support will help commercialise these technologies by providing free access to open-sea test centres. The announcement was made at the Ocean Energy Europe 2016 Conference & Exhibition in Brussels today. FORESEA Read More »
Press Release: CorPower Ocean secures €4m funding for WaveBoost project
CorPower Ocean AB, a developer of high efficiency wave energy converters, has been awarded a €4m grant by the European Commission (EC) for its WaveBoost project. The grant will support a three-year innovation programme targeting significant improvements in the reliability and performance of wave energy converters by using pneumatic components in combination with advanced control Read More »
Press Release: Ocean energy researchers replicate site-specific ocean conditions better than ever before
Three year collaboration between EMEC and FloWave offers wave and tidal energy developers ‘try-before-you-buy’ site simulation capability Two of the world’s leading ocean energy test centres have joined forces to replicate the wild ocean environment of Orkney in a state-of-the-art test facility in Edinburgh. The project, a collaboration between the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Read More »
Press release: Scotrenewables installs world’s largest tidal turbine at EMEC for first time
The world’s most powerful tidal turbine, developed and manufactured by Scottish engineering company Scotrenewables Tidal Power Limited, has been installed on its moorings for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre’s Fall of Warness tidal test site in Orkney as part of site commissioning and testing. The 2MW ‘SR2000′ floating turbine was towed Read More »
Press Release: Free reliability methodology training workshop for marine energy
The RiaSoR (Reliability in a Sea of Risk) consortium are organising a free workshop to provide marine energy developers with training on how to use newly developed reliability methodologies. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for the partners of the project – EMEC, ORE Catapult and SP Research – to update the marine energy Read More »
