EMEC: 2016 in review
Well what a year it has been! It all kicked off for us back in February when the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) was hosted in the UK for the first time. We began the week by welcoming marine energy developers from around the globe to EMEC as part of a marine renewables day Read More »
Press release: Reliability guidance published for marine energy developers
The Reliability in a Sea of Risk (RiaSoR) project has published new guidance advising on the assessment of reliability in marine energy converters. Available to download from the RiaSoR website, the ‘Reliability Guidance for Marine Energy Converters’ report transfers experience in the application of Variation Mode and Effect Analysis (VMEA) from the automotive and aerospace Read More »
Press release: €5.6m MET-CERTIFIED project launched
Europe’s Interreg 2 Seas Programme has awarded €5.6 million to the MET-CERTIFIED project to accelerate the deployment of marine energy projects. MET-CERTIFIED is run by a consortium of European industrial, governmental and academic partners. In July 2016, the Interreg 2 Seas Monitoring Committee gave the green light to the MET-CERTIFIED project which aims to increase Read More »
Press Release: Ocean energy engineers discuss reliability in a sea of risk
37 marine energy engineers and academics have taken part in an educational workshop reviewing new reliability methodologies for ocean energy. The reliability methodologies have been developed as part of the OCEANERA-NET funded RiaSoR project. Reliability in a Sea of Risk (RiaSoR) has established guidelines detailing industry best practice in reliability testing for wave and tidal Read More »
Blog: Class of 2016
Eileen Linklater, EMEC’s Client and Marketing Manager reflects on how far we have come in the marine energy sector, as the first prototype turbines tested at EMEC graduate to array projects. When I joined EMEC in 2009, there was one client with a tidal turbine in the water – an Irish company called OpenHydro with their Read More »
