The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is at the forefront of the development of marine-based renewables – technologies that generate electricity for homes and businesses by harnessing the power of waves and tidal streams. As the first centre of its kind to be created anywhere in the world, we offer developers the opportunity to test full scale grid connected prototype devices in unrivalled wave and tidal conditions.
A world first was achieved when Edinburgh-based Pelamis Wave Power generated electricity to the National Grid from its deep water floating device at EMEC’s wave test site. A second test site for tidal devices off the island of Eday has recently been opened with the first developer, Dublin based OpenHydro, already installed and generating electricity to the grid. Below are two short DVDs which help describe our role in the marine renewables industry:
