UK-headquartered Inyanga Marine Energy Group has announced that it has set up a new office in Canada to help drive the development of offshore renewable energy in the country.
The Group operates a highly experienced and specialised team of offshore engineers from their head office in Falmouth, UK. The company also has offices in Rennes, France, and Anglesey, Wales – and now Nova Scotia, Canada.
The new company is called Inyanga Maritime Services Nova Scotia Limited, based in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Kiley Sampson has been appointed as Vice President of the Canadian division and will establish a local team to provide offshore operations and engineering capability to the region.
Kiley Sampson said:
“We plan to develop a consortium including local Canadian partners to develop, fund and deploy tidal energy capacity in the Bay of Fundy, using the HydroWing tidal energy technology. The potential for tidal energy and fixed and floating offshore wind in Nova Scotia is immense and we are poised to seize the opportunity and make it happen.”
The new company will provide marine engineering and offshore operations support to the marine renewable energy industry in Canada, across both the offshore wind and tidal energy sectors.
Nova Scotia is well positioned to capitalize on the economic benefits associated with tidal energy. The province has over 300 ocean technology firms – the largest concentration in North America. Many of the small- and medium-sized enterprises with proven capabilities in environmental research, resource assessment, fabrication, and innovative design are already engaged in the tidal energy sector.
Commenting on the opening of the Canadian office, Richard Parkinson, CEO of Inyanga Marine Energy Group, said:
“Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy has been identified by the California-based Electric Power Research Institute as one of the best potential sites in North America for tidal power generation. Our ambition is to unlock the full potential of the Bay of Fundy and provide low cost, reliable renewable energy to Canada.”
The Bay of Fundy’s huge tidal energy resource contains more than four times the combined flow of every freshwater river in the world, with the potential to generate approximately 2,500 MW of green energy.
Nova Scotia is also set to establish a major offshore wind sector including floating and fixed bottom mounted wind farms. Offshore wind speeds in Nova Scotia are among the best in the world, between 9 m/sec and 11 m/sec.
Richard Parkinson continued:
“Recently, a report from the regional assessment committee tasked by the Canadian government to define the offshore wind potential in Nova Scotia was released. It describes eight potential development areas for offshore wind that cover a total of 31,200 square kilometres. The opportunity for offshore wind is enormous. Many developers are now being attracted to the region and with our proven track record in fixed and floating offshore wind projects in France and the UK, we can help accelerate the growth of the offshore energy industry.”
Inyanga Marine Energy Group develops cutting-edge solutions for the global offshore renewables industry via two divisions:
- HydroWing, which focuses on tidal energy technology development
- Inyanga Maritime, which delivers offshore engineering and installation.
Using its patented tidal energy technology, HydroWing, Inyanga has recently been awarded a contract to develop the first tidal energy plant in Southeast Asia as well as awarded a binding agreement to develop the first tidal energy plant in Indonesia.
Inyanga also has a UK Government ‘Contract for Difference’ for a 20MW tidal energy project at Morlais in Wales and recently took over operations of the iconic D10 tidal turbine, the first operational tidal turbine in France.
The company is aiming to advance through to deployment their innovative patented tidal energy converter, HydroWing, to provide cost-effective, reliable, and predictable power to communities around the globe.
In September 2024, Inyanga Marine Energy Group The award of 10MW in September for their tidal energy project at Morlais through Allocation Round 6 (AR6) of the UK government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme doubles the scale of their project, which uses their HydroWing technology, to 20MW, building on their successful 10MW award in the previous allocation round. This allocation was the largest tidal stream project in the UK in the latest Contracts for Difference round.
The Group have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Verdant Morlais Ltd to deliver a further 4.9MW tidal stream energy project at Morlais.
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