News this week
Neil Kermode, EMEC’s Managing Director, chaired the SuperGen Marine Research Advisory Forum held at Edinburgh University this week. The work of the SuperGen consortium was discussed in advance of the Marine Annual Assembly on 18th November. More information on SuperGen can be found on their website. Last Friday a special training session for the Orkney Read More »
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Neil Kermode, Richard Morris and Eileen Linklater joined nearly 4000 people in Liverpool this week to attend BWEA31 – the British Wind Energy Association’s annual renewable energy conference and exhibition. Neil gave a presentation as part of the Wave and Tidal Plenary – “The £60 Million RES Investment”. The session expanded upon the investment announcement Read More »
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On Wednesday 14th October EMEC was honoured to receive a visit from HRH Princess Anne. The Princess Royal was in Orkney to take part in the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow. Afterwards, EMEC was included in a small number of visits within the county, recognising Read More »
EMEC AIS Stations
A new safety system is providing invaluable information about shipping activity in the waters where wave and tidal energy devices are tested in Orkney. EMEC, the European Marine Energy Centre, has set up two receiving stations that pick up transmissions from ships operating near its test sites and over a wide sea area. The information Read More »
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Planned work at our wave site was put on hold this week due to the lack of weather windows, with vessels standing by in Stromness. Scottish Natural Heritage held a team meeting at EMEC this week for staff from all over Scotland involved in renewables. Jenny Norris, EMEC’s Research and Consents Manager, and Research Assistant Read More »
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Firstly, apologies to anyone who found our website down over the past week – some technical work has been undertaken and everything should be back to normal. Last week Richard Morris, EMEC’s Commercial Director, attended the press unveiling of the new 10m Openhydro device during a visit to Canada. The device is the size of Read More »
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On Tuesday this week we were very excited to have a visit from a group of North Isles Primary Schools. Twenty-three pupils of all ages from North Ronaldsay, Eday and Rousay came to Stromness for a renewable energies day. The morning was spent at the Stromness Community Centre learning about (and making) different forms of Read More »
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This week we were visited by Doug Trask and Glenn James from the Newfoundland and Labrador Research and Development Corporation, Canada, who came to visit our wave test site. Another recent visitor was Stephane Archeveque, from JP Kenny Renewables (Wood Group) who came up from Aberdeen to see our Stromness office and Billia Croo. Also Read More »
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John Swift, from the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change visited our research team this week to discuss streamlining consents and decommissioning. He also took the opportunity to view the Billia Croo Wave test site and ongoing works there. Jenny Norris (Research and Consents Manager) and John Lawrence (Hydrodynamicist) will be speaking at Read More »
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A group from the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute (TORI) visited EMEC this week as part of their European tour. They are collecting information on marine renewables technology to inform the development of ocean energy resources in Taiwan. They were accompanied by Commercial Director, Richard Morris. Richard then headed off to Stirling to give a presentation Read More »
