The French government recently announced its financial support to the FloWatt project, developed by HydroQuest and Qair. Seven 2.5 MW tidal turbines, manufactured in the Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie shipyard of Cherbourg, will be commissioned in 2026 in Normandy's Raz…
Ocean Energy Europe hails the French government announcement of at least €65 million of funding, plus dedicated revenue support, for the pioneering tidal energy pilot farm FloWatt. Announced today by the Minister for the Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the move…
SAE is pleased to announce the successful deployment of ‘Turbine 2’ at the MeyGen site. The turbine has undergone significant upgrades to improve performance and reliability. One of the major steps was to convert the turbine to use a wet-mate…
CorPower Ocean has resumed its deployment program for its first commercial scale C4 Wave Energy Converter, following a period where the Aguçadoura wave energy site in northern Portugal has been out of operation. Earlier this year, CorPower Ocean identified cable…
The revised Renewable Energy Directive will be central to the delivery of our energy security and climate objectives as set out in REPowerEU, Europe’s energy response to the Ukraine war. While we welcome the overall political agreement reached back in…
Sharing infrastructure, services and supply chain between wind and wave energy projects can reduce the wind Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) by up to 7% and the wave LCOE can decrease by up to 40%. The combined LCOE of a…
Minesto, leading ocean energy developer, has today successfully completed the first phase of Dragon 12 (1.2 MW) offshore installation in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands. The 3.4 km main subsea cable was laid on the seabed, from the onshore grid connection point…
Irish wave energy developer, OceanEnergy, has signed up to demonstrate its OE35 floating wave energy converter at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. OceanEnergy intends to demonstrate the OE35 over two winter periods from 2024 at EMEC’s…
ORPC, an internationally recognized marine renewable energy developer whose power systems harness the energy of free-flowing rivers and tides, has signed a contract with Shell Technology – Marine Renewable Program to initiate a Modular RivGen® Power System demonstration project in…
Europe is taking a leap forward to secure its leadership in innovative renewables with the endorsement of a 45% renewables consumption target and a 5% innovation target for new installed capacity. The targets were agreed this morning by the European…
