MCA Marine Guidance Notes
Please note that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s Marine Guidance Note 275 has now been re-issued as MGN 371 for Developers and 372 for Mariners. Please see the MCA website for further information.
News this week
Last week in Edinburgh, Neil Kermode, Managing Director, presented at and chaired a session of the UK-Canada Marine Energy Workshop 2008 arranged by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This very useful two day event explored the opportunities for the expansion of the co-operation between the UK and Canada in exploiting marine energy. Neil also attended Read More »
News this week
The 12th August saw the release of the draft standard ‘Assessment of Performance of Tidal Energy Conversion Systems’. Following this a further tranche of standards is due out imminently. Watch this space! Visitors to EMEC this week were a party from the Aquaret project comprising members from various European bodies looking at wave and tidal Read More »
News this week
ROV surveys of all 5, 11kV cables have been undertaken at the Tidal Test Site over the past 2 weeks. The results are now being collated into an internal report. The 3rd September Environmental Guidelines meeting in Edinburgh was a very useful and well attended event. Regulators from across the UK attended and discussed prioritization Read More »
Royal visit
EMEC were delighted to host a visit of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, September 15th 2008. They were accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Orkney, Dr Tony Trickett, and were welcomed to EMEC’s offices by our Managing Director, Mr Neil Kermode. Following a presentation of EMEC’s current activities, their Royal Read More »
Openhydro successful deployment
A specially built barge is steering the next stage in the development of tidal energy technology under test at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. Irish company OpenHydro has successfully used the unique vessel to mount a tidal turbine on the seabed off Eday. Called the OpenHydro Installer, the twin-hulled barge has Kirkwall as Read More »
News this week
Longbore are continuing with their drilling work at Billia Croo on behalf of Aquamarine Power Ltd. OPT have been up in Orkney visiting EMEC’s offices and continuing preparation work ready for installation in 2009. OpenHydro are back on site, continuing with the next phase of their testing programme. Ib Salomon a Danish journalist working for Read More »
Standards update
EMEC is pleased to announce that on the 12th of August the draft standard ‘Assessment of Performance of Tidal Energy Conversion Systems’ has been published by BERR. We would like to thank BERR for their support in the development of this document, and especially to thank all the stakeholders who have participated in the brain-storming, Read More »
News this week
On Monday August 18th we were very pleased to receive a visit from Jim Mather MSP Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism. The photograph shows, from left to right, Gareth Davies, Aquatera Environmental Consultancy and Chair of Orkney Renewable Energy Forum; Neil Kermode, Managing Director, EMEC; Jim Mather MSP; Stephen Hagan, Orkney Islands Council Convener; Read More »
Aquamarine Power Ltd press release
Directional drilling work is due to start this week at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC’s) Billia Croo site, four miles north of Stromness. The work is the first stage in preparation for deploying Aquamarine Power’s Oyster® wave power converter for full-scale testing next year. The directional drilling work will involve drilling three pipelines to Read More »
