Verlume Granted Fit4Offshore Renewables Status
Scottish energy management and storage technologies specialist Verlume has achieved the ‘Granted' status from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) program.Designed as a business improvement programme and to build energy sector specific capability, F4OR has been developed with input from the offshore renewable energy industry and is managed through ORE Catapult.Verlume was enrolled in the F4OR programme in late 2021 and was presented to the granting panel in November 2023. Obtaining F4OR Granted status signifies that Verlume is competent
Verlume Reports 'Significant Growth' in 2023
U.K.-based energy management and storage technologies company Verlume reports an increasing headcount and sales growth in 2023 across several markets including offshore wind, subsea monitoring and offshore charging. The company said it has increased its orders booked tenfold year on year and is on target to deliver a 400% increase in revenue for the financial year.Following recent successful demonstrations of the company’s technology and securing significant commercial sales, the Verlume team is growing with a current headcount of 30 professionals seven position openings.In terms of sales
Funding Granted for "World’s First" Vessel Charging Station within Offshore Wind Farm
UK’s £60 million Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) grant.Project leaders Oasis Marine, who specialize in marine charging solutions, have partnered with power electronics and rapid charging specialist Turbo Power Systems and, Verlume, an intelligent energy management and storage technologies specialist, and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to deliver the solutions called the "Offshore Charging Station."This smart energy storage and charging infrastructure will enable fully electric maritime operations within offshore wind farms, the companies said in a joint
Energy @ Sea: Powering Up in the Blue Desert
and resident technologies.The SeaRAY will also soon participate in a demonstration in partnership with the U.S. Navy and the Department of Energy in Hawai’i. The energy storage unit to be used will be a Halo underwater battery provided by Verlume, a provider of energy management and storage technologies. The AOPS will be deployed from the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site, and its generation and storage capabilities will support several technologies, including data sensors and a Saab Sabertooth autonomous underwater vehicle.The first commercially sold SeaRAY AOPS, nicknamed the TigerRAY
Subsea 7, FLASC Get BEIS Grant for PowerBundle Offshore Energy Storage System
our technology development initiatives, and we are extremely proud to have been selected in this pioneering and highly-competitive funding program; one of the first specifically targeting Longer Duration Energy Storage. Beyond the financial support, this also confirms our view that offshore energy storage technologies have a key place in the energy transition, working alongside onshore solutions towards a cleaner and more robust energy system.”The competition will be delivered through two phases. In phase 1, projects will be expected to mobilize their proposed technologies to prepare for potential
Bob Black Joins EC-OG Board
EC-OG, developer of energy management and storage technologies for the energy industry, has appointed Bob Black as a non-executive director on its Board. He will act as the Board representative of EC-OG’s investors Par Equity.Bob has 30 years of experience across the international oil and gas and defense industries, and was previously CEO of unmanned maritime systems software solutions provider, SeeByte. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Edinburgh.Black is the second EC-OG Board appointment of this year, following the appointment of Bob MacDonald as chairman in January 2021.
Subsea’s Future is Blowin’ in the Wind
from the world’s first commercial floating wind farm. Electricity produced 25 kilometers offshore at the Hywind Scotland wind farm is transported via cables to an onshore substation in Peterhead, Scotland to be stored in the Batwind 1 MW lithium-ion batteries and connected to the grid.Energy storage technologies like batteries and others are expected to grow increasingly important for grid stability in the years to come, especially as the installed costs of battery storage systems continues to fall. Sebastian Bringsvaerd, development manager for Hywind and Batwind, explained that variability of renewable
Call for Abstracts: Small Distributed Ocean Power
for Island Electrification; Size Scale Category: SMALL - 20kW to 250kW: There is a need to generate power for islands and remote coastal locations, 20-250 kW, that currently use diesel generators. Customers include a wide range of islands and remote communities. Topic 4: In-situ Energy Storage Technologies Specific to Topics 1, 2, or 3 Size Scale and Use: There is a need for advances in energy storage technologies covering the various scales for direct energy storage as well as for the smoothing out of the electrical supply from these variable sources; ensuring that the supply and variability
February 2025
