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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…

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 w…

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, CorPowe…

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 shared project can be up to…

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 connectio…

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 per…

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® …

Orbital Marine Power (Orbital), the renewable energy company focused on the commercial deployment of its innovative floating tidal turbine technology, announced it has been awarded an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland for a new tidal ene…

Nova has successfully installed its world-leading tidal energy technology at the Étel Estuary, bringing its turbines to France for the first time. This tidal energy trial proves that Nova's world-leading tidal technology can be deployed i…

Minesto has successfully installed the tidal power plant Dragon 4 at the newly added second foundation in Vestmannasund. The upgraded tether design is developed in a targeted R&D project that aims to further improve the production pe…