A new three-year action plan has been agreed to improve the marine energy consenting process in Wales.

Renewable energy certification body Lloyd’s Register (LR), has signed an agreement with Scotland-based Orbital Marine Power to start the certification process for what is described as the “world’s largest” tidal energy converter (TEC).

A €19.6 million partnership project, which aims to be the stepping stone towards large scale wave energy commercialisation, has received formal go-ahead from the European Union.

A £1.7 billion project which includes a tidal lagoon,will create thousands of well-paid jobs and place Wales at the forefront of renewable energy innovation has been announced by an international consortium.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry considering how British technology innovation could hold the key to tackling climate change, with an early focus on offshore wind.

The UK is coordinating a €5 million EU-funded project to construct an underwater kite to harness tidal energy - the goal is to build and install kites with spans of 12 meters, each designed to produce up to 1.6 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

Atlantis, a global leader in the tidal power sector, has today announced that first power has been produced from MeyGen, the world’s largest planned tidal stream energy project project in the Pentland Firth, Scotland.

Welsh-based tidal stream technology company Tidal Energy Ltd has entered administration - the administrators are now looking for a buyer to take the business on as a going concern.

Scotland will be home to the world’s first ever large-scale tidal stream farm as part of a drive to develop Scotland’s marine renewables industry, creating jobs and investment.

A number of leading renewable energy organisations are warning that government proposals in the consultation launched yesterday to review the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will jeopardise investment in the renewable energy sector and put thousands of jobs at risk.