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  • Minister Macfarlane Unveils CETO Units

    9 April 2014
    Authorities

    Australian Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane announced a significant milestone for Carnegie’s Perth Wave Energy Project, supported by $13.1 million of Federal Government funding through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Mr Macfarlane unveiled three newly constructed CETO units at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson, Western Australia. The buoys were recently delivered to BAE Systems to […]

  • Greeks Studying Floating Offshore Wind Potential

    4 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Chalkis Shipyards and a number of Greek institutions are collaborating on a project seeking to study the potential of floating offshore wind in the Greek Seas. The WIndfloat.gr – Innovative Design of Floating Wind Plants for the Greek Seas project seeks to exploit the wind potential of the Greek Seas with the aim of boosting […]

  • French Deputy Chief of Navy Visits Carnegie (Australia)

    21 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited welcomed Vice Admiral Stéphane Verwaerde, Deputy Chief of the French Navy, to its private Wave Energy Research Facility yesterday in Western Australia. Carnegie’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr Michael Ottaviano and Project Development Officer, Mr Tim Sawyer, gave the Vice Admiral and his party a tour of the Fremantle […]

  • LD Tide Inks New CTV Contract for Saint-Nazaire OWF

    12 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit, through a joint venture named LD Tide, have signed a crew transfer vessel (CTV) contract with the developer of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, Eolien Maritime France. The CTV is the third such vessel to be operated by LD Tide on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, following an order […]

  • Vessels: CTruk Transfers Offshore Wind Knowledge to Military Sector

    13 July 2015
    Vessels

    Lessons learned from the prolific increase in building workboats for the offshore wind farm sector can benefit the military user, according to CTruk CEO Andy White. White told the audience at a Royal Institute of Naval Architects conference entitled Warships 2015: Future Surface Vessels that developments in vessel design, construction and operation as a result of […]

  • Australia: Perth Wave Energy Project to Provide Electricity for HMAS Stirling

    26 September 2012

    The largest navy base in Australia is about to become a home for the world’s first demonstration wave energy project, writes Science Network Western Australia. Namely, Australian Department of Defence and Carnegie Wave Energy Limited have signed an agreement for Perth Wave Energy Project on Garden Island, the base of HMAS Stirling, Australia’s largest naval […]

  • USA: Glosten Associates Showcase Floating Wind Turbine

    9 September 2013

    On August 15 Detroit-based Charles Nordstrom, P.E. of Glosten Associates Inc. (naval architects and marine engineers out of Seattle) presented the latest design and deployment plans for the Pelastar floating wind turbine system at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon. Emphasizing the opportunity to locate near load demand, Nordstrom explained the system […]

  • DCNS to Dive Into India´s Offshore Renewables

    17 July 2012

    A France-based company DCNS, which is presently constructing submarines for the Indian Navy, has plans to focus on the offshore renewables in India and use the opportunities of the country´s maritime resources. DCNS aims at lowering the costs of energy produced from these sources. Specifically, the Gulf of Cambay and Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat […]

  • France: DCNS Turns to Harnessing Ocean Energy

    31 July 2013

    World leader for naval defence, DCNS has turned its knowledge of the sea and its unique experience of new technologies into an advantage to position itself on the renewable energy market. An ambitious plan that is already well on its way to being implemented. The theoretical potential of marine energy is unparalleled. Each year, the […]

  • Langlee Wave Power Opens Office in Canaries, Spain

    20 January 2013

    Langlee Wave Power AS keeps growing, opening an office in the Canaries through its Spanish subsidiary Langlee Wave Power S.L.U. The office is located in the Scientific and Technological Park of Tafira, in the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University Campus. The Scientific and Technological Park aims to set up a space for knowledge enhancement, […]

  • ‘Millennium Falcon’ Measures Tidal, Wave Energy Effect on Marine Habitat

    6 February 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) are building a new underwater robot named “Millennium Falcon”. The robot will deploy instruments to gather information in unprecedented detail about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy. Researchers still don’t fully understand how animals and fish will be affected by ocean […]

  • Columbia Power to Deploy StingRAY at Navy’s WETS

    26 November 2014
    Technology

    Columbia Power Technologies has announced its newest project – the open-water demonstration of a utility-scale StingRAY at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS).  It is the culmination of an intensive product development effort that includes over 10,000 hours of in-water, scaled prototype testing. The grid-connected StingRAY deployment at WETS, which is located off […]

  • Bentley Expands SACS Offerings for Floating Structures

    8 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Be Inspired: Thought Leadership in Infrastructure – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of FormSys, based in Perth, Australia. This software development company has a proven, twenty-year track record in 3D design, analysis, and construction software for structural engineering, offshore engineering, and […]

  • Germany: GL Renewables Certification Strengthens Wave and Tidal Business

    7 May 2013

    GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) appoints Holger Trecksel as new Head of Department Marine Renewables. Wave and tidal energy is a promising realm of renewable energy. As technology advances, GL RC is providing expertise to designers, manufacturers, investors and insurers who are involved in the evaluation of engineering integrity and safety of ocean energy systems. […]

  • DEME’s Living Stone Hits the Water (Gallery)

    19 September 2016
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s new multi-purpose vessel Living Stone was launched yesterday at the LaNaval shipyard in Spain by Sarah Tommelein, wife of Bart Tommelein, Vice-Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister for Energy. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2017 and will head to its first project at the Merkur offshore wind farm […]

  • DCNS and Nass&Wind to Showcase Their Floating Wind Turbine in Tokyo, Japan

    24 July 2013

    From 24 to 26 July 2013, DCNS and Nass&Wind will present their Winflo floating wind turbine development programme at the 8th Renewable Energy 2013 exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. A study of the marine renewable energy sector highlights the many common issues shared between Japan and France. Both countries have very long coastlines offering significant marine […]

  • Navantia, General Dynamics NASSCO Eye US Offshore Wind Opportunities

    8 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Navantia Seanergies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US shipyard General Dynamics NASSCO to jointly bid for offshore wind farm projects in the United States. The agreement was signed by the Director of Navantia Seanergies, Javier Herrador, and the President of General Dynamics NASSCO, David J. Carver. The agreement includes the manufacture […]

  • Nervion Buys Siemens Gamesa’s Factory in Spain to Build Offshore Wind Foundations

    22 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Nervion Naval Offshore, a subsidiary of the Spanish Amper Group, has bought the factory that Siemens Gamesa had built in As Somozas, A Coruña, for wind turbine blade production. The Bilbao-based company plans to open a fabrication facility for jacket and floating offshore wind foundations there as soon as in the second half of this […]

  • GE Orders Saint-Nazaire CTVs

    16 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has placed an order with the joint venture of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit for two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. The joint venture LD Tide selected naval architects MAURIC to design the CTVs and French shipyard OCEA to construct them. Construction will start […]

  • DOE Launches Wave Energy Prize Competition

    28 April 2015
    R&D, Technology

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a Wave Energy Prize competition with a prize purse totaling more than $2 million available for top ranking teams. In a keynote presentation yesterday during the joint opening session of the annual National Hydropower Association and International Marine Renewable Energy Conferences, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable […]

  • Voith Turbo Opens New Office in Port of Hamburg (Germany)

    16 February 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    Since January 2012, the Voith Turbo market division Marine has been present in the Port of Hamburg with its own office managed by naval architect Sigurd Hildebrandt. In the new Große Elbstraße 42 offices, Voith not only supports customers with regard to all propulsion matters but will also establish a foothold for the sale of […]

  • Mojo Uses QinetiQ’s Software for Its Hi Flo 4 Vessel

    10 February 2015
    Vessels

    Paramarine, QinetiQ’s ship and submersible design software has been used by Mojo Maritime to design an offshore construction vessel, for the marine renewables sector. The Hi Flo 4 (HF4) is a dynamic positioning vessel capable of operating in extreme coastal and continental shelf environments, designed with the support of InnovateUK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board). […]

  • Hawaii Wave Energy Test Site Gets USD 9 Million

    22 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Work at the Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) located off Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kāneʻohe has received an infusion of $9 million from the U.S. Navy. The funds, from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), are directed to the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai‘i (ARL/UH), working with UH Mānoa’s Hawaii Natural […]

  • Spanish Floater Spins Into Life

    31 May 2019
    R&D, Technology

    Spain’s first floating offshore wind platform, the W2Power, has started generating first kilowatts of electricity at the Astican Shipyard in Gran Canaria. The 1:6 scale multi-turbine platform will soon be transported to its final destination at PLOCAN’s test site off the Gran Canaria, project partner Ingeteam said. W2Power is a joint project of EnerOcean, Ghenova, Ingeteam, and […]

  • UK: Rosyth Could House Offshore Wind Turbines Manufacturing

    7 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Scarborough Muir, a joint venture between Scarborough Group and Muir Group, plans to redevelop the former Rosyth naval base and turn it into offshore wind turbine manufacturing and servicing site. According to The Herald Scotland, realization of this plan could attract GBP 500 million of investment and create 3,500 working positions. The plan for a […]

  • Norway: Inocean Inks Agreement with ABB to Provide Engineering Services

    5 March 2012

    Inocean, a leading Norwegian naval architect company, has signed an agreement with ABB, to set up an engineering services joint venture specializing in offshore wind integration projects. ABB will have a majority shareholding in the new entity, ABB Inocean AB which will be located in Gothenburg, Sweden, a region with a shipbuilding history and recognized […]