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Minesto to concentrate Dragon Class operations in the Faroe Islands in 2022

March 14, 2022
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Minesto has decided to concentrate this year’s operations with its Dragon Class marine energy converters at the established and grid-connected site in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands. This plan will mitigate supply chain delays and at the same time allow Minesto to take advantage of significant...Read more »
Minesto’s first D4 unit will go straight into continuous grid-connected operation in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands during the first half of 2022 as originally intended. To optimise the timeline, Minesto has decided to install also the second D4 (100 kW) and the larger D12 (1.2 MW) units in... Read more »

Interim Management Statement 1 January–30 September 2021

October 21, 2021
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CEO Dr Martin Edlund: “The development of Dragon Class demonstrates both the technology's inherent competitiveness and our employees' ability to efficiently refine the product with customer value in focus. There are further technical advances to be made in the future, but we are confident...Read more »
Significant events July–September 2021 In July, Minesto announced that the company had achieved further improved power production performance through upgrades and modifications to the DG100 power plant. Furthermore, key aspects of test operations and electricity production with the DG100 system... Read more »

Minesto awarded funding by Swedish Energy Agency to facilitate commercial scale-up

September 24, 2021
Minesto closes in on Vestmannasund kite launch
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The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Minesto a SEK 5.8 million grant to the ongoing commercialisation of Minesto’s ground-breaking Deep Green technology. The grant co-funds a project through which Minesto will develop and verify a next generation tether system to facilitate the commercial scale-up...Read more »
“We are very pleased that the Swedish Energy Agency continues and expands its support for Minesto. This investment contributes to strengthening the competitiveness of our product ”, said Dr Martin Edlund, CEO of Minesto. The tether system connects Minesto’s marine energy power plants with the... Read more »

Minesto launches Dragon Class power plants for commercial scale-up

September 20, 2021
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Leading marine energy developer Minesto today introduces a new range of power plants – the Dragon Class – an upgraded design of the company’s Deep Green technology for predictable renewable electricity generation from tidal and ocean currents. Featuring increased performance and decreased...Read more »
“We are excited to announce this latest development of our unique technology. The Dragon Class evolves from the systems we have installed and operated in our Faroe Islands’ project. Its increased customer value is straight to the point – maximise yield and minimise costs. This is the backbone... Read more »

Minesto and electric utility SEV extend PPA and plan for scale-up in Vestmannasund

September 08, 2021
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Leading marine energy developer Minesto has signed a two-year extension of its Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the electric utility company SEV for Minesto’s tidal energy site in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands. In addition, a site extension analysis concludes that the current 200 kW Vestmannasund...Read more »
“It is of great importance to Minesto that our collaboration with SEV is extended and expanded. We have a mutual commitment to a continuation of the ongoing operations in Vestmannasund and to bring tidal energy at grand scale to the Faroe Islands’ grid mix. This PPA extension is a strong signal of... Read more »

Minesto strengthens its commercial organisation with new Chief Marketing Officer

September 01, 2021
Minesto's CMO Elke Rosiers
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Minesto strengthens the company’s executive team as Elke Rosiers, with extensive experience from the energy industry and from turning new technology to business, has been appointed new Chief Marketing Officer. Through the recruitment Minesto strengthens its sales and marketing organisation to gear...Read more »
Elke Rosiers has extensive international experience and broad expertise in business and market development. Over the years she has worked with global players such as Siemens, Maersk, and Volvo as well as with growing technology-based companies. For the past six years Elke has successfully built up... Read more »

Minesto publishes Half-Year Report 2021

August 19, 2021
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CEO Dr Martin Edlund: “The solid financial position together with the technical and operational progress during the year has provided a powerful platform to deliver our existing projects, scale up the technology, expand industrial collaboration and establish new projects.”Read more »
Significant events April–June 2021 Minesto continued its operational activities at the company's production site in the Faroe Islands. During the spring, energy production from the DG100 marine power plant delivered grid-compliant electricity at new record levels. In April, Minesto announced that... Read more »

New record-level and third-party verification of electricity generation in Minesto's Faroe Islands tidal energy project

July 06, 2021
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Leading marine energy developer Minesto has reached further improved power production performance through upgrades and modifications of the company's DG100 marine power plant. Furthermore, key aspects of test operations and electricity production with the DG100 system have now been third-party...Read more »
Minesto recently resumed operations with its tidal kite system DG100 in the company's project in the Faroe Islands, which Minesto is carrying out together with the electric utility company SEV. Following this spring's success with electricity production in Vestmannasund, Minestos has upgraded the... Read more »

Change in the number of shares and share capital in Minesto

May 24, 2021
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The number of shares and share capital in Minesto AB has increased as a result of the exercise of warrants of series TO3.Read more »
A total of 10,236,653 new shares were subscribed for in Minesto AB through the exercise of the TO3 warrants. Subscription has taken place in instalments during the subscription period, which ran from January 2020 to 30 April 2021. After the shares subscribed for in connection with the end of the... Read more »

Minesto raises SEK 161.6m through fully subscribed warrants program

May 04, 2021
Press releases
The warrants program TO3 in Minesto AB has been successfully completed. The program was fully subscribed, which means that Minesto adds SEK 161.6 million in proceeds before issue costs to secure the company’s commercial expansion. A total of 10,236,653 new shares in Minesto were subscribed for...Read more »
“It is very satisfying that the TO3 program was fully subscribed. This contributes to a strong financial position and creates the right conditions for converting Minesto's world-leading competitive advantages in marine energy into industrial value. We are now focusing on large-scale commercial... Read more »

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