News & Events
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Open Source Design Tool to Optimize Wave & Tidal Arrays Launched

News Pioneering wave & tidal energy design tool - DTOcean - was officially launched today as an open source software package...
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Churchill Barriers Tidal Energy Concession

News Concession to design, build, operate and finance tidal energy at the Churchill Barriers, Orkney, Scotland.
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DTOcean design tool SEMINAR

News Following 3 years of intensive work, DTOcean will present its design tool solution to end-users on October 12th in Liverpool alongside RenewableUK’s Renewables Marketplace Conference & Exhibition
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News for MRE planning and permitting in Irish waters

News Data and information for planning and permitting of offshore renewable energy developments in Irish waters.
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Successful deployment of 2nd turbine at EDF’s Paimpol-Bréhat tidal array

News The second DCNS / OpenHydro tidal turbine was immersed successfully on May 29th, in waters about 40 meters deep.
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€3.9M Innovation Funding for Tidal Energy In Orkney

News The European Commission has awarded just over €3.9 million (£3.1 m) to support tidal energy testing and demonstration in Orkney waters.
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DTOcean numerical tools to be "shown off" at the 2016 ICRERA conference

Workshop "WindWEC: Combining Wind and Wave Energy Inspired by Hywind and Wavestar" to be presented at the Annual International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)
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DTOcean present at the International Congress on Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Optimization Problems 2016

Workshop Elements of the DTOcean toolbox were explained at the international conference held in Bilbao, Spain.
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DTOcean to present at ISOPE 2016

Workshop "A Frequency-Depth Explicit Interaction Theory Formulation" to be presented at the Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE)
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DTOcean meeting in March, 2016

News DTOcean has held a full consortium meeting and discussions with the Scientific Advisory Board in Cork, Ireland.
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Open Training Course at PhD level

Workshop Modelling and Control of Wave Energy Converters
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Certification and standards for tidal turbines and arrays

News Outputs from ETI marine energy project lead to new and improved certification and standards for tidal turbines and arrays
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International course on Marine Energy Technologies

Workshop The international course on Marine Energy Technologies in the Netherlands will take place this March.
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Sotenäs wave energy plant sends power to the Nordic grid

News Sotenäs wave energy plant has started delivering power to the Nordic electricity grid following the connection of several buoys to wave energy converters.
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Launching of the first tidal turbine in the EDF Paimpol-Bréhat project

News The DCNS / OpenHydro tidal turbine was immersed successfully on Wednesday, January 20th, in waters about 40 meters deep.
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ICOE 2016 Workshop

Workshop Workshop on wave energy converter technology requirement specification and performance metrics
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OpenHydro turbine heads to Paimpol-Bréhat

News The first of two DCNS-built OpenHydro tidal turbines heads to array test site in France.
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Mojo Maritime installs Tidal Energy Ltd’s DeltaStream

News Mojo Maritime has led the installation of Tidal Energy Ltd’s DeltaStream device in Ramsey Sound, off Wales.
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Ocean energy industry presents draft Strategic Roadmap

News The Ocean Energy Forum working group presented its draft roadmap for the sector at Ocean Energy Europe 2015 in Dublin.
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DTOcean "Supply Chain and Cost Reduction" at OEE 2015

Conference & Exhibition Henry Jeffries presented DTOcean in the session "Cost Reduction: A Supply Chain Story"
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Break-through in the tidal energy sector.

News GeoSea: Use of jack-up vessels under extreme tidal conditions demonstrated.
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First tidal turbine ready for Paimpol-Bréhat installation

News The OpenHydro turbine could be deployed before the end of 2015
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Tocardo tidal project in Denmark

News Tocardo Tidal Turbines opens 1.2MW Eastern Scheldt project in Dutch tide barrier.
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Sabella D10 comes on-line.

News Ushant supplied with power from tidal currents.
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DTOcean present at EWTEC 2015

Conference & Exhibition Sensitivity Analysis of WEC Array Layout Parameters Effect on the Power Performance
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DTOcean present at Ocean Energy Europe 2015

Conference & Exhibition Henry Jeffries to present DTOcean in the session "Cost Reduction: A Supply Chain Story"
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DTOcean publishes new report on array changes and LCOE

News This report details the algorithms for implementation of the effects of array changes on device cost.
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DTOcean releases 2015 newsletter

News DTOcean has facilitated acces to its public deliverables through the release of a newsletter containing direct links to the documents.
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ORE Catapult guiding effective marine energy array configuration

News The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has developed a ‘decision tree’ to help guide designers and developers towards the most cost effective marine energy array configuration.
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WavEC Seminar 2015 and B2B Meetings

Seminar "Portugal and France: A driving force on research and innovation in Marine Renewable Energies"
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EOLO Develops Wave Energy Predicting Technique

News The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has developed wave energy predictions for the Bay of Biscay by using a technique called random forests.
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DTOcean busy in May!

News DTOcean partners have been spreading the word about progress within the project.
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Kepler plans tidal energy fence

News Kepler Energy is embarking on a funding round to develop a £143m, 30MW ‘tidal energy fence’ project in the Bristol Channel through the development phase and the planning process.
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Carnegie goes to Cornwall

News Australian developer Carnegie Wave Energy has established a base in Cornwall as it gears up for deployment of a 3MW array at Wave Hub in 2018.
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Sabella delays tidal job

News French developer Sabella has suspended the last leg of the installation process of its tidal turbine and will bring in a new vessel to replace the MV Palembang.
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EU is pivotal to ocean energy

News The European Union’s assembly of regional and local representatives has adopted a report underlining the need to support wave and tidal energy to meet its future energy needs.
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Submarine Electricity Transmission Nearly $25 Bln in 2024

News According to a new report from Navigant Research, the global submarine electricity transmission market is expected to grow from $16.8 billion in 2015 to $24.8 billion in 2024.
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EMEC and FloWave join forces

News Energy research facilities joining forces to offer tank testing.
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Scotland makes wave call

News State-run R&D body Wave Energy Scotland has launched its second technology call with a search for novel wave energy converter devices.
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WETFEET Project: accelerate the success of wave energy projects

News Experts to look into breakthrough features to accelerate the success of wave energy projects – WETFEET Project
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OES Reliability Workshop

News On the 05th and 06th of February 2015 a 1,5 day workshop of OES will take place at the Electricity Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop host is WavEC Offshore Renewables.