Renewables

Schottel creates hydrokinetics subsidiary

NOVEMBER 7, 2014 — Spay, Germany, headquartered marine propulsion specialist Schottel has created a new subsidiary to handle its hydrokinetic energy business, Schottel Hydro GmbH. The new company will be active in

Hawaii ocean energy project makes progress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014 — Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. reports that its Ocean Energy Research Center (OERC) in Kona, Hawaii, has received two new heat exchangers (2-megawatt thermal duty each), and a 100

New partnership aims for offshore wind in Americas

OCTOBER 7, 2014—U.S.-based Renewable NRG Systems and Belgium’s FLiDAR recently entered an exclusive partnership for the distribution of FLiDAR’s offshore wind measurement buoys in the Americas. The deal calls for Renewable NRG

EU provides funding for tidal turbine project

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 — Two tidal energy developers — Gothenburg, Sweden, headquartered Minesto and London, England, headquartered Atlantis Resources Ltd. — are to get EUR 750,000 in EU funding. The funds will