News this week
Global Marine’s Cable Ship Sovereign returned to the Fall of Warness last week, with EMEC’s Neil Kermode on board to oversee the final cable works (see news story). The picture above shows one of the new cable ends being re-laid on the seabed after being spliced to one of our existing subsea cables. The new Read More »
CS Sovereign open day
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) are holding an open day on board the Cable Ship Sovereign which has been at anchor off Kirkwall for the last week. The ship has been laying new cables for EMEC and tours are being arranged before it goes out for the last piece of work. Tours will take Read More »
News this week
ATLANTIS Resources Corporation has successfully deployed its AK1000 tidal turbine on its subsea berth. It took seven days to install the gravity base structure, over 1000 tonnes of ballast blocks and finally, the turbine nacelle, complete with its twin set of 18 meter diameter rotors. Congratulations to all the Atlantis team on this major achievement. Read More »
EMEC expansion – berths available
A £5million expansion of the world’s flagship test centre for full-scale wave and tidal energy machines has increased its capacity by a third – enabling new prototype devices to go into the water this year. Based in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), has taken its set of test sites from nine Read More »
News this week
Atlantis Resources Corporation unveiled its AK-1000 (see picture) at Invergordon last week. Neil Kermode and Richard Morris of EMEC travelled to the unveiling before the turbine was shipped to Kirkwall in preparation for installation on EMEC’s tidal test site. The device stands 22.5m (73ft) tall and weighs 1,300 tonnes, making it the largest bladed turbine Read More »
Cable success creates new EMEC berths
The operation to install three new seabed cables at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, has been completed successfully. More than four kilometres of cable were laid, creating two new test berths at EMEC’s tidal test site off Eday and another at the wave test facility near Stromness. The CS Sovereign, a cable laying Read More »
P2 Arrives in Orkney
A giant wave energy device, built by Edinburgh-company Pelamis Wave Power, has arrived in Orkney ahead of a comprehensive test programme at EMEC, the European Marine Energy Centre. At 180 metres in length, the second generation P2 machine is far larger than the original Pelamis prototype previously tested at EMEC. The machine was towed north Read More »
News this week
The CS Sovereign arrived in Orkney this week to lay three new seabed cables for EMEC, two at the tidal test site at the Fall of Warness off Eday and one at the wave test site at Billia Croo near Stromness. The 130-metre vessel, operated by Essex-based Global Marine Systems Ltd will also be used Read More »
News this week
EMEC are proudly sponsoring training jackets for Stromness Primary Junior football players, and we were delighted to see everyone in their tops today at the school. Coach Dave Jessiman has been working hard to put the youngsters through training, so hopefully we’ll see some football stars of the future emerging from the group. Client and Read More »
News this week
EMEC hosted a visit from SNH’s Scientific Advisory Committee this week. The group took a trip to the Black Craig to see wildlife observations underway at the wave test site. For further information on the monitoring projects see the research webpage. We were also visited by members of the Caithness and North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership, representatives Read More »
