A business focused webinar sharing our insights on private 5G in industry: its benefits, the real use cases, and how you can go about evaluation or deployment. BCP Council’s resident 5G expert, Xavi Nunez will be presenting. Xavi has worked on numerous 5G projects, including the deployment of the Council’s own 5G testbed in Lansdowne. […]
Yesterday OWGP launched a £4.2M support package which consists of a £3.5M Development Grant Funding Competition and a £700,000 Wind Expert Support Toolkit (WEST) Programme for offshore wind supply chain companies. Development Grants of £100k to £1M are available for transformative supply chain projects that will deliver a step-change in company growth WEST is […]
Hexicon to acquire Wave Hub Ltd for offshore floating wind technology demonstrator Swedish floating windfarm developer and technology provider Hexicon is to acquire the Wave Hub offshore renewable energy test site in Cornwall, South West England. The deal, which is expected to complete at the end of May, will see Hexicon through its […]
The University of Plymouth will be hosting this event during their Research Festival 2021. Fishing nets and other gear account for a significant proportion of plastic pollution in the marine environment, causing harm to habitats and organisms and breaking down into smaller particles until becoming microplastics. Fishing is heavily relied upon for global food production, so how […]
Two supply chain webinars events are planned on the 10th and 15th June where project and technology developers from tidal stream sites across the Channel in France and the UK will share the details of their forthcoming development and procurement plans. Both events will take place at 9.30 – 11:30 BST, (10.30 – 12:30 CET). The events are part of the €45.4m Interreg funded Anglo-French Tidal Stream Industry Energiser (TIGER) [link www.interrgtiger.com] project which aims to […]
The aim of this competition is to address key research and development opportunities in the UK power electronics, machines, and drives (PEMD) supply chain to support the UK’s drive towards net zero. This is to facilitate UK niche and volume supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in PEMD. By niche supply chain we mean low […]
Maritime UK SW Sponsor, Applied Genomics, based at Brixham Environmental Lab, have developed a sensitive environmental DNA Sampling tool which acts as an early warning system helping maritime ports to detect, monitor and manage invasive non-native marine organisms which potentially threaten the marine environment in ports and their surrounding coastal waters. Invasive non-native species are […]
The Floating Offshore Wind Demonstration Programme is a new funding call which has been announced by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). It reflects the UK Government’s target for floating offshore wind to deliver 1GW of energy by 2030. Floating offshore wind (FLOW) is a fast growing industry worldwide. It enables wind […]
The Department for International Trade (DIT) have a marine sector specialist to help businesses across the Great South West (covering the Heart of the South West, Dorset and Cornwall & Isles of Scilly LEPs) looking to export their products and services internationally. The free service open to all marine sector companies in the area, can […]
On Thursday 13th May, EXIST (Exeter Initiative for Science & Technology) will be returning with a virtual event exploring Clean Mobility and the race towards zero emission transportation. This knowledge sharing & business engagement session will run from 10am – 12pm, focusing on the challenges, innovations and opportunities for zero emission transport, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, […]