Abstract
Debt financing is tallest step on path to maturity
Arrival of industrial heavyweights brings sharper focus on bottom line at coming early-stage array. (Page 2)
- Global project rundown
- Tried and trusted turbines ahead in tidal race
- Pelamis breaks out from wave pack
- Narec offers ultimate dry run for developers
- UK challenge to go for gold
- Matching funds ‘grant funding guarantee’
- TEL aims for quality not speed off Wales
Sparks flying at EMEC
Orkney test centre underpins Scotland’s claim to the global ocean energy crown. (Page 9)
- Lease in bag for bigger and better Siadar
- Brussels swings towards collaborative R&D
- Austerity waiting game for Ireland’s developers
- Lease round in the North open to all-comers
- Scandinavians chase financing tide
- Seabased to build swarm of point absorbers
French eye on the prize
Suite of test sites and Cherbourg manufacturing plant flag up the nation’s industrial ambitions. (Page 13)
- Wave partners mull joining FEM
- Customers beat path to 40South’s door
- Iberia off pace in competition for wave crown
- Mutriku offers learning but no profit
Sponsors cheer at Carnegie
Australian developer’s largest Ceto 4 buoyant actuator yet is gearing up for summer trials. (Page 16)
- Kiwi cash cupboard stripped bare
- Asian big guns turn sights out to sea
- Korean gates open for Tocardo turbines
- Atlantis to get ball rolling in Gujarat
It’s payback time in Canada
Ocean energy developers under pressure to deliver return on generous federal and provincial support. (Page 20)
- Nova Scotian grid to feel the FORCE
- Brazilian university taps into wave potential
- Giant leap for US pioneers
- Industry mourns PTC then moves on...