CorPower Ocean Puts Finishing Touches to C4 Wave Energy Device Upgrades
the ocean deployment phase of its commercial-scale C4 device offshore Portugal in 2023.In recent months engineers have performed careful inspections, adjustments and upgrades to finetune the system based on the data. Upgrades have been designed to address lessons learned, and systematically improve subsystems to increase operational range, power capacity and reliability.It comes after post-deployment inspections provided numerous insights in areas including biofouling, corrosion, robustness and station keeping in storm conditions.Electrical data collected during operation has further informed upgrades
Mocean Energy Raises Funds for Blue Star Wave Energy Technology
Norwegian impact investors Katapult Ocean and MOL PLUS, the corporate venture capital arm of listed Japanese shipping conglomerate MOL.In addition, Mocean has secured a £499,500 Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund grant, targeted specifically at the detailed design, build, and testing of key subsystems for their small-scale Blue Star wave energy machine.The low-carbon fund is administered by Scottish Enterprise and is part of Making Scotland’s Future, a partnership between the Scottish Government, public agencies, industry, and academia that aims to secure a strong, sustainable future for
MTR100: For USVs and AUVs, is it a Hydrogen Future?
USVs, as well as for larger uncrewed vessel builds.ACUA OceanACUA Ocean’s H-USV. Image courtesy ACUA OceanACUA Ocean has received DfT funding through Innovate UK to build a hydrogen powered USV (H-USV) for long endurance operations, as part of swarm operations at sea.It completed work on the subsystems and has plans to launch a prototype to be named Ocean Protector and perform site acceptance testing in 2023, followed by swarm demonstrations in 2024 and swarm deployments in 2025. The vessel is being developed in collaboration with local naval architecture firm Ad Hoc Marine Designs and features
Cellula Robotics Sells Seafloor Drill Division to Focus on AUVs
, President at Cellula, "with our recent focus on AUVs, the opportunity presented itself at a key time. We look forward to pivoting our efforts on AUV development and innovation."Previous seafloor drill projects under the Cellula brand included ROVDrill & ROVDrill MkII for Canyon Offshore, subsystems for the Forum M80 and BGS RD2. Cellula's most recent drill developments were the CRD100 drills supplied to Fukada and JAMSTEC in Japan. Cellula said it would continue to support its valued CRD100 clients
Innovative Anchoring Solution for ORPC’s TidGen Project
ORPC has engaged Sustainable Marine’s Swift Anchors division to provide its novel rock anchoring system for ORPC’s Advanced TidGen Project set to launch in Maine later this year.Swift Anchors will be among a number of subsystems which ORPC will develop, test and integrate to validate a full TidGen system in a commercial site over 12 months, providing practical demonstration that it is technically, economically and environmentally viable. The U.S. Department of Energy is providing partial funding for the project.Swift Anchor’s technology has been driven by industry demand for greener
Minesto Granted Patent for Tidal Tech
of our intellectual property and the industrial value linked to Minesto’s technology. Our IP strategy is as simple as it is effective: we systematically extend the protection of the core technology by ‘shielding’ the main patent with complementary patents related to supporting subsystems and offshore processes. Through this, we create significant commercial value for Minesto and its shareholders”, said Dr Martin Edlund, CEO of Minesto. "The approval of the new patent means that the patent protection surrounding Minesto’s unique ocean energy technology called
Riding the Tides: Interview with Jason Hayman, CEO, Sustainable Marine Energy
a long, long time with its propulsion units. About 10 years ago now, they started an initiative to start to (leverage their know-how from the propulsion units) and turn that into a tidal turbine. They have done some work for other tidal turbine technology developers, supplying drivetrain components and subsystems. And in the meantime, they’ve been developing this small drivetrain themselves. We were partnering with them for a while using their drivetrain in our early prototypes, then we reached a point where we said, "Okay, well, you guys have got part of the system, we've got part of the
NUWC Division Newport Names Chhim Director of Cybersecurity for Undersea Warfare
process onboard U.S. submarines, and was responsible for working with PMS 425 on the cybersecurity toolkit development, integration and test, delivery, operations, validation and fleet training. Critical to this was the complex work that she conducted with software developers ensuring that SWFTS subsystems successfully integrated the cybersecurity capabilities and performed the appropriate testing to validate its cybersecurity integrity.Chhim earned a bachelor’s degree in object-oriented mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in 2005 and a master’s degree in cybersecurit
Cellula Robotics Partners with the NOC to Advance Marine Autonomy
, Managing Director, Cellula Robotics UK Ltd., said, “We are delighted to be joining the Innovation Center. Many of our successfully developed products and systems have been the result of open collaboration with other system developers and suppliers. We ourselves have also often provided complete subsystems, engineering and project management services to other system integrators and builders, so we would consider representation by Cellula Robotics in the NOC community and network mutually advantageous, and we very much look forward to exploring this bilateral relationship further over the coming year
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