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Verdant Power Surges into Irish Tidal Sector
US-based energy company Verdant Power has formed a joint venture with Irish company Belleville Duggan to develop tidal energy projects in Ireland and the United Kingdom - with the goal of eventually becoming ''one of the leading project developers in the clean-tech sector.''
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NewsUnmanned pollution control: no more sci-fi
“Our approach to designing an Unmanned Surface Vessel for things like water quality checking is to keep it simple,” said Greg Atkinson of Eco Marine Power. “You can go off on a tangent and make everything sci-fi – and you could spend a lifetime developing it.”
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NewsUK offshore wind – dodging the cuts
With over a decade of experience, the UK’s offshore wind programme is building momentum again with progress on Round 2 extensions and impending major construction activity for Round 3, time for an update.
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NewsWave watching: two viewpoints
According to worldwide data, wave energy presents a bigger resource than tidal power which requires certain niche locations. Further, it has an edge over wind or solar energy as waves can be seen forming at a distance. So why is it taking so long to get into the water and ...
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NewsOcean clean-up moves closer
A ''passive pickup'' device to clean plastics from the ocean is to face one of its toughest challenges yet: force 8 or 9 gales and seas to match.
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NewsTurkish side collector
Mavi Deniz is introducing a new concept for OSRVs (Oil spill Recovery Vessels), an oil recovery system capacity of 100 m3/h which is approved by BV Class Notation.
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Offshore wind maintenance conference
ACI’s Optimising Maintenance for Offshore Wind conference will be taking place in Hamburg, Germany, on 5th-6th October 2016. The two day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from the offshore wind industry, associations, consultants, and solution technology providers.
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GWEC report
The Belgium-headquartered Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) recently launched its flagship publication, the ‘Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update’. It claims that the wind power industry set new records across the world last year, and wind is leading the transformation of the global power system, long overdue and very necessary ...
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NewsPerpetuus go-ahead
The Marine Management Organisation has issued a license to operate the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC), a state of the art tidal energy generation project located in the strong tidal race off St Catherine’s Point, off the southern tip of the UK’s Isle of Wight.
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NewsAlternative to floating wind turbines?
Current technology tends to limit offshore wind farms to water depths of less than 50 metres but now technology has been developed that can extend this to depths of up to 200 metres, providing a challenge to the use of expensive floating wind turbines.
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NewsKeel marine harbour skimmer
The design team at UK naval architects Keel Marine has developed a compact skimmer vessel that can operate within the tight confines of a small harbour to remove floating debris and weed.
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NewsNorway and Britain buy Current Buster
The unique oil pollution recovery system developed by Norwegian company AllMaritim has been selected by both Norwegian and British authorities as the preferred system to cope with oil spills in their coastal waters. For Norway this is a repeat order while for Britain the contract with AllMaritim is a new ...
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NewsSeawork winner expanding production
Since winning the overall innovation prize at Seawork International last year with its prototype innovative oil pollution control system, the UK''s Gobbler Boats has spent the year developing the concept into a full production version.
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NewsCoral biodiversity researchAddressing the challenge to coral biodiversity
The research schooner ''Tara'' has begun a new expedition in the Asian Pacific to examine the biodiversity of coral reefs and their evolution in response to climate change and human activities.
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NewsOffshore Wind in Poland - Riding the Winds of Opportunity?
Poland is gradually emerging as a potentially important investment market for offshore wind - but although a number of international companies continue to show an interest in investing in the country''s onshore sector, progress in offshore development remains sluggish.
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NewsBureau Veritas approves WindFloat foundation
Global classification society Bureau Veritas has issued Approval in Principle for the WindFloat Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) foundation following tests off Portugal.
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NewsWave energy funding frenzy
WITT Energy, the inventors of a completely new wave energy capture device, first reported in March MJ has overfunded by over £1.6 million on its hugely successful Crowdcube equity campaign.
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NewsMinesto orders turbine prototype from Schottel Hydro
Swedish tidal power company Minesto, together with German tidal turbine manufacturer Schottel Hydro, has completed the turbine design of Minesto’s tidal power plant Deep Green.
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NewsGreen barge for silt disposal
The LNG barge ‘greenports I’, thought to be the first working vessel at a European seaport to be powered by eco-friendly liquefied natural gas, is set to regularly carry silt dredged from the harbour basins in Bremerhaven to the disposal facility in Bremen-Seehausen.
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NewsStatoil plans battery storage for Hywind
A new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy will be piloted in the world''s first floating wind farm. The Hywind project to be located off the coast off Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland will have a battery storage facility incorporated into its shore station to optimise the electrical power distribution.
