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BlueX News | 9-10-24 | AI for In-Land Shipping and Behavioral Science
Plus thermal batteries, MOL investments, and a floating OSW paper
Will Lutz
September 10, 2024
This week’s BlueX has several offshore wind announcements. With that in mind, it’s my pleasure to highlight our friend Aly Rose and her recent paper on floating offshore wind. Check it out here.
Have a good week OceanTech Friends.
-Will
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OceanTech Fundings
The main event. Startup investment announcements in OceanTech.
🤖 AI for in-land shipping company Shipping Technology raised a round from First Dutch and the founders of Platform Zero | More from Silicon Canals
⚓ OceanScore, a European ETS solution company, raised €5M from theDOCK and Stolt Ventures, Motion Ventures, and Portline. | More from Maritime Executive
🛥 Sustainability in shipping using behavior science company, Signol, raised £2.5M from MOL, Ultrabulk and Marina Hadjipateras. | More from Splash 247
More OceanTech News
Some of the OceanTech articles we liked. Not fundings necessarily, but some great stuff:
🔋 Sunamp’s Thermal Battery Uses a Chemical Found in Salt-And-Vinegar Potato Chips | The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water. | More from TechCrunch
🐠 MOL Invests in Norwegian Ocean Venture Fund to Push New Blue Economy | MOL Plus to strengthen collaboration with start-ups within impact investing. | More from Tradewind News
🌊 ONDEP Project Wins €19M EU Funding to Deploy Wave Energy Array Offshore Portugal | The Ondas de Peniche (ONDEP) project has secured €19 million in funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe funding program to deploy a 2 MW wave energy array with four WaveRoller wave energy converters offshore Portugal. | More from Offshore Energy
More Ocean Sustainability News
Even if it isn’t tech, that doesn’t mean we don’t love reading these pieces:
💨 New England Selects 2.9 GW of Offshore Wind for Massachusetts/Rhode Island | After what they are calling a rigorous selection process, Massachusetts and Rhode Island announced the results of the first multistate wind power solicitation selecting a total of nearly 2.9 GW offshore wind power. | More from Maritime Executive
🌊 UK awards six tidal stream projects with Contracts for Difference in Allocation Round 6 | The UK government has unveiled the results of Allocation Round 6 (AR6) of the contracts for difference (CfD) renewable auction, with six projects across five sites securing contracts to deliver 28 MW of tidal stream capacity at a rate of £172/MWh (approximately $225/Mwh). | More from Offshore Energy
💧 First Turbine Installed at Revolution Wind, the Next US Offshore Wind Farm | The first of the turbines for the offshore wind farm known as Revolution Wind has been successfully installed marking the next milestone for the U.S. offshore industry. | More from Maritime Executive