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Blog: EMEC strengthen international relationships

Last month, EMEC welcomed a 16-strong delegation from the Kyushu Economic Federation, led by Vice-chairman, Mr Masayoshi Nuki. The Federation is a regional, economic organisation with memberships of about 970 companies. Their aim is to investigate issues, closely coordinating with their members and related organisations to contribute to sustainable economic development in Japan. Following the Read More »


Press Release: Prime Ministers’ support leads to joint UK & Canada marine energy project

The UK’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), based in Orkney, and Canada’s Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) have kicked off a joint project looking at the difference in corrosion and underwater behaviour of marine coatings either side of the Atlantic. Working with Whitford, a global leading high-performance coatings manufacturer, the two marine energy Read More »


Press Release: EMEC shortlisted for Business Green Technology Awards

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been shortlisted for the ‘Marine Energy Technology of the Year’ award at the Business Green Technology Awards 2016. Bringing together leading executives and technologists from some of the UK’s most exciting clean technology companies, the Business Green Technology Awards aims to celebrate start-ups and established technology and engineering Read More »


Blog: Climate change deniers be gone!

Lisa MacKenzie, EMEC’s Marketing and Communications Officer, takes a look at the facts about global warming. A couple of weeks ago I had a lovely, although slightly nippy, couple of hours out of the office at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site being interviewed by Nick Clark, senior correspondent at Al Jazeera. Our waverider buoys Read More »


Press release: Ocean Energy Strategic Roadmap launched

Building an ocean energy industry in Europe will require innovative financing tools to channel public and private investment in the most efficient way, according to a report launched at the Ocean Energy Europe conference in Brussels. Produced by the Ocean Energy Forum, the Ocean Energy Strategic Roadmap identifies the challenges facing the sector on its Read More »


Press release: FORESEA opens second call for ocean energy applications

The FORESEA (Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action) Programme’s second call for support package applications is now open. Support packages will help technologies to commercialise by providing free access to FORESEA’s network of world leading test sites. FORESEA is an €11m project which helps to bring offshore renewable energy technologies to market by Read More »


Press release: FORESEA awards support to ten ocean energy technology developers

The FORESEA (Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action) Programme has awarded a ‘Recommendation for Support’ to ten ocean energy technology developers. The support will help commercialise these technologies by providing free access to open-sea test centres. The announcement was made at the Ocean Energy Europe 2016 Conference & Exhibition in Brussels today. FORESEA Read More »


Press Release: CorPower Ocean secures €4m funding for WaveBoost project

CorPower Ocean AB, a developer of high efficiency wave energy converters, has been awarded a €4m grant by the European Commission (EC) for its WaveBoost project. The grant will support a three-year innovation programme targeting significant improvements in the reliability and performance of wave energy converters by using pneumatic components in combination with advanced control Read More »


Press Release: Ocean energy researchers replicate site-specific ocean conditions better than ever before

Three year collaboration between EMEC and FloWave offers wave and tidal energy developers ‘try-before-you-buy’ site simulation capability Two of the world’s leading ocean energy test centres have joined forces to replicate the wild ocean environment of Orkney in a state-of-the-art test facility in Edinburgh. The project, a collaboration between the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Read More »


Blog: Innovation transcending politics

Originally from Houston, Texas, Elaine Buck has settled in Orkney and works as EMEC’s Technical Manager. Keep Calm and Carry On It is only four days ‘til we know the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election. It has been four months and 12 days since Brexit. Why is this important? To me these pivotal Read More »


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