EMEC is exhibiting at Renewable UK’s Wave & Tidal Conference on 28th February 2018.  The event will be held at the SEC, Glasgow, Scotland.

ATTENDING RUK WAVE & TIDAL

• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Jonathan Lindsay, Operations Director
• Jon Clipsham, Hydrogen Development Manager
• Erica Mathers, Marketing Officer

If you would like to organise a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060

EXHIBITION

EMEC will be exhibiting as part of the Team Scotland stand.

NOT TO BE MISSED

Session A4: The Place of Commercial Marine Energy in a Smart, Flexible System

The energy system is changing fundamentally – with increasingly flexible networks, a changing role for large utilities and generators building their investment case on stacking flexibility services. Join us to discuss where this new world is heading and what it could mean for the future of commercial tidal and wave energy.

Jon Clipsham: ‘Integrating Hydrogen Electrolysers with Tidal Energy Systems’

Orkney has an abundance of renewably produced electricity however the current grid is already constrained, restricting the progress of new wind, tidal and wave energy projects. Therefore, innovative projects are being developed to use Orkney’s energy in different ways. EMEC has invested in an electrolyser to convert tidal and wind power to hydrogen which can subsequently be used directly as a fuel or chemical feedstock, or in combination with a fuel cell to generate electricity. The integration of renewable energy with the manufacture of an explosive, and potentially dangerous chemical has meant a culture shift within the organisation, which has had to embrace new technologies and methodologies from a different sector. EMEC is the first organisation to produce hydrogen from tidal energy.

The full programme is available to view here: Renewable UK Wave & Tidal 2018 Programme

The 49th Oceanology International 2018 Conference Exhibition will be held in London, Excel on 13-15 March 2018.  Oceanology International has firmly established itself as the world leading ocean technology marine science exhibition and conference, bringing together the latest technologies and thought leaders worldwide.

Attracting visitors from a variety of industries, including oil & gas, marine renewables and maritime defence, Oceanology International gives the opportunity for buyers and suppliers to do business in one location. Oceanology International offers structured networking opportunities to help suppliers establish relationships and secure business on a global scale.

ATTENDING OI2018:

• David Darbinyan, Performance Test Engineer
• Myles Heward, Performance Test Engineer

If you would like to organise a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.

For more information on Oceanology International 2018 and to register: Click here

EMEC’s Hydrogen Business Development Manager, Jon Clipsham, is attending the 10th Conference in New York’s State’s Advanced Energy Series from the 26 – 28th March 2018.

If you would like to organise a meeting with Jon, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.

At AEC 2018 you’ll have the opportunity to meet and network with influential leaders, key researchers, and policy makers from every part of the energy sector. This is the energy industry’s most inclusive event of the year, spanning an exceptionally broad range of sessions and topics.

Scottish Renewables’ Annual Conference 2018 will be held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh, taking place over two days on 26 & 27 March 2018.

For the conference, visit: SR Conference Programme 2018

Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies (EIMR) is an international conference hosted at different sites across the Scottish Highlands and Islands region, led by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and Heriot Watt University (HW).  The conference will explore the interactions of wave and tidal energy technologies with the environment.

EIMR 2018 will be held at the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney from 24-27th April 2018.

About EIMR:

The International Conference on the Environmental Interactions of Marine Energy Technologies (EIMR) aims to serve as a major forum for global researchers and professionals to come together to present their latest research, results, and ideas and strengthen relations between the emerging marine renewables industry, research laboratories, and universities.

Previous conferences in Kirkwall, Orkney (2012) and Stornoway, Lewis (2014) – hosted by Heriot-Watt University and the University of the Highlands and Islands – explored the interactions of wave and tidal energy technologies with the environment. Since then, wave and tidal testing and commercial deployments have progressed in Scotland and worldwide.

The industry, regulators and academic researchers now have real world experience that has generated valuable lessons about effective methods and the relative significance of different interactions.

Speaking at EIMR:

• Caitlin Long, Consents and Project Officer,  will be presenting on ‘Understanding wildlife displacement using data from real-sea testing of wave and tidal devices’ and ‘Developing a streamlined consenting process at a tidal test site’
• Florence Ungaro, Project Manager, will be presenting on ‘Critical review of anti-fouling strategies used on marine renewable energy converters deployed in real sea conditions’

The 50th Offshore Technology Conference will be held from the 30th April – 3rd May 2018, at the NRG Park, Houston, Texas.

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is where energy professionals meet to exchange ideas and opinions to advance scientific and technical knowledge for offshore resources and environmental matters.

Attending OTC:

• Elaine Buck, Technical Manager
• David Darnbinyan, Performance Test Engineer

If you would like to organise a meeting, please contact info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.

Speaking:

•  David Darbinyan -  ’Downscaling Global Wave Ensemble Forecasts with Machine Learning Techniques in application to Billia Croo test site’

More details on EMEC’s attendance to follow.

To view the OTC 2018 programme, visit: OTC Technical Programme.

Oliver Wragg, EMEC Commercial Director and Elaine Buck, EMEC Technical Director, will be attending the Waterpower Week in Washington D.C from 30 April -2 May 2018

If you would like to organise a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.

Speaking at Waterpower Week

Session 4 | Tuesday Morning Plenary Session: Global Frontiers of Waterpower
Tuesday 1 May
9:00am – 10:30am

As the regulator for the hydropower industry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has a front-row seat on policy development to promote new U.S. hydropower and pumped-storage deployment and the relicensing of existing projects. FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre provides an update on Commission activities in the hydropower sector and his perspective on the future.

Then, a panel of international project developers and experts shares how waterpower technologies are moving forward in Europe and beyond, and describes the policies that are driving their success. The discussion includes commerical-scale marine energy projects as well as conventional hydropower and pumped storage providing new gigawatts to the electricity grid.

Speakers:

• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director, EMEC
• Kevin McIntyre, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Remi Gruet, CEO, Ocean Energy Europe
• Pierre Marx, Executive Leader – North America, Hydro, GE Renewables
• Bill Girling, Senior Analyst, International Hydropower Association

Session 7D: MHK: Competitive Advantages in Non-Grid Markets
Tuesday 1 May
2:15pm – 3:30pm

The traditional business approach of selling electricity to a utility via a standard power purchase agreement (PPA) is not the only revenue generation model for the marine energy sector.

Additional markets with promising potential include providing electricity for desalination, remote instrumentation, and sub-sea data centers.

Which of these and other alternative and emerging markets are being pursued that could provide better economics, quicker penetration, and a more compelling “value” to the end user?

Session Leader:

• Bill McShane, Technology Manager, Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology, Water Power Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Speakers:

• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director, EMEC
• James Bellingham, Director, Center for Marine Robotics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Neil Sims, CEO, Kampachi Farms, LLC
• Joseph Sinfield, Associate Professor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, and Director, College of Engineering Innovation and Leadership Studies Program, Purdue University

Session 9D: Learning from Success: Experiences from Offshore Power Project Developers
Wednesday 2 May
8:15am – 9:30am

Session Leader:

• Jason R. Busch, Executive Director, Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET)

Speakers:

• Elaine Buck, Technical Manager, European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)
• Elisa Obermann, Executive Director, Marine Renewables Canada
• Patrick S. Cross PhD, Program Manager – Ocean Energy, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa

About Waterpower Week

Waterpower week in Washington provides three great conferences into one! IMREC, METS and NHA’s Annual Conference have teamed up to give you a 3-day jam packed event to network and discuss about policy change and government affairs. Keep up with all the news in the hydro and marine industry in this all-in-one event. The event highlights perspectives on the role of hydro, explores issues affecting hydro and marine resources, and helps participants develop a future game plan to meet challenges and ensure the future sustainability of the hydro and marine industry. Take part in conference sessions tailored to legislation, procedures and topics to see in the year 2017 when it comes to innovation in marine and hydro. Earn professional development hours to improve your position within your company or to put on your resume for developing your own career. Enjoy high quality plenary sessions that have the top hydro influencers speaking about hot topics in the industry. With over 30 sessions and over 300 speakers jam packed into 3 days, you don’t want to miss this! Enjoy co-located events that are designed to help with niche markets and to ensure that your company exceeds beyond the traditional aspect of hydro. Mingle and discuss with the DOE and other government officials to make sure that your voice is heard on laws regarding the hydro and marine industry. Waterpower Week also showcases table top displayers, to help better fit your product and service needs. See some of the newest products on the market in the both hydro and the wave energy industry, or be a participant yourself and get your ideas and innovations out there in front of the decision makers that matter.

EMEC is exhibiting at All-Energy 2018, 2 – 3 May, in Glasgow. You’ll find us on Stand ORK19 in the Orkney and Highlands & Islands Enterprise pavilions.

Attending All-Energy

• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Jonathan Lindsay, Operations Director
• Jon Clipsham, Hydrogen Business Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Commercial & Marketing Manager
• Matthew Finn, Senior Business Development Manager
• Catrin Sutherland, Commercial Development Officer
• Caitlin Long, Environment & Consents Specialist
• Steven Pyke, KTP Associate - Systems Developer

If you would like to organise a meeting, please contact info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.

Speaking at All-Energy

There’s a plethora of fascinating talks lined up in the All-Energy programme sure to tickle your fancy. Our top picks include:

Day 1 | 2 May 2018

11:00 – 12.30 | Marine Renewable Energy 1: Success stories, market entry and commercial status

• EMEC’s Managing Director, Neil Kermode will be talking on ‘Marine renewables making ground breaking advances.’
• An update will be given on EMEC’s client Scotrenewables’ SR2000, by their CEO, Andrew Scott.
• David Taffe, Director of Project Delivery will be giving an update on the MeyGen project.

Day 2 | 3 May 2018

10:30 – 11:00 | Hydrogen Hub

• Jon Clipsham, Hydrogen Business Manager, EMEC will be speaking on ‘Tidal Energy and Hydrogen: New market opportunities for ocean energy’

11:00 – 12:30 | Marine Renewable Energy 4: Focus on wave

• Tim Hurst, Managing Director, Wave Energy Scotland will give a presentation on ‘Creating the winning solution.’
• CorPower CEO Patrik Möller will provide and update on their C3 wave device currently testing at EMEC.

13:00 – 14:30 | Marine Renewable Energy 5: That’s the name of the game: Enabling research & technology

• John Griffiths, EMEC Associate, will be chairing the session.

15:00-16:30 | Marine Renewable Energy: Global opportunities for small scale solutions

• Past EMEC client EC-OG’s Bodhi Sarkar will provide an overview on their device providing a subsea energy diversification option for the marine sector

Exhibition

EMEC are gearing up for another exciting exhibition for All-Energy 2018. You will find us on stand ORK19 within the Orkney Pavilion as part of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise Area.

EMEC Speed Updates

EMEC Session | 2 May 2018 | 12:30-14:30 | Wave & Tidal Quick Fire Seminar Theatre

We’re bringing together some of the leading players in ocean energy for a fast-paced speed update session discussing some of the R&D challenges facing the industry, as well as progress reports from the developers testing at EMEC.

This session will take place from 12:30 in the Wave & Tidal Seminar Theatre within the exhibition area. There’s limited seating so best to come along early to claim your spot.

Schedule:

 12:30 | EMEC & Hydrogen: Creating new market opportunities for ocean energy

• Growing an island hydrogen economy
  Jon Clipsham, Hydrogen Development Manager, EMEC
• Optimising energy systems for island economies
  Paul Jordan, Director of Business Development, Energy Systems Catapult

12:50 | At home with EMEC: Supporting ocean energy research, development and testing

• Funding support for ocean energy development
  Matthew Finn, Senior Business Development Manager, EMEC
• Streamlining the consenting process at EMEC
  Caitlin Long, Environment & Consents Specialist, EMEC
• Smart sensing in marine power cables
  Dr Simon Sorensen, Researcher, Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics
• Innovative environmental monitoring programmes
  Caitlin Long, Environment & Consents Specialist, EMEC
• Reducing risks through verification, standards and certification
  Jonathan Lindsay, Operations and Technology Director, EMEC
• Estimating early stage TRL LCOE
  Steven Pyke, KTP Associate – Systems Developer, EMEC

13:25 | Real-sea demonstration: Speed updates from EMEC’s clients

• Laminaria: LAMWEC / FORESEA
  Steven Nauwelaerts, CEO, Laminaria
• EC-OG: Subsea Power Hub
  Bodhi Sarkar, Senior Engineer, EC-OG
• Wello: CEFOW
  Timo Lotti, Chief Operating Officer, Wello
• Tocardo: InToTidal / FORESEA
  Hans van Breugel, CEO, Tocardo
• Magallanes: Ocean 2G
  Pablo Mansilla Salinero, Project Manager, Magallanes
• OpenHydro
  Robert East, UK Development Manager, OpenHydro
• Scotrenewables: FloTEC / FORESEA
  James Murray, Business Development Manager, Scotrenewables
• Nautricity
  Ian Freeland, Project Manager, Nautricity
• CorPower: WaveBoost / FORESEA
  Tord Jonsson, Supply Chain and Quality Manager, CorPower

EMEC will be exhibiting at the 7th International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Cherbourg, Normandy, France, on 12-13 June 2018.

Attending ICOE

• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
• Jonathan Lindsay, Operations & Technology Director
• Elaine Buck, Technical Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Commercial & Marketing Manager
• Nicolas Wallet, FORESEA Programme Manager
• Caitlin Long, Environment & Consents Specialist
• Anna Southall, Performance Test Engineer
• Erica Mathers, Marketing Officer
• Carly Tait, Marketing Officer

If you would like to organise a meeting with any of the EMEC team, please contact us: info@emec.org.uk | +44 (0)1856 852060

ICOE Programme | Our highlights…

Day 1 | Operating in the cruel sea: Learning and planning (0920 – 1035)

Our CEFOW project partners, Jason Schofield (Green Marine) and Irina Temiz (Uppsala University), will discuss their experiences of operations and maintenance at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site.

Day 1 | Operating in the cruel sea: Installing, Inspecting & Maintaining (1100 – 1230)

Andrew Scott (Scotrenewables), will discuss low cost floating tidal energy, looking at the success of the SR1-2000 that is currently testing at EMEC’s Fall of Warness test site, and looking forward to the next iteration of the device, being developed under FloTEC.

Day 1 | Development of a Streamlined Consenting Process at the European Marine Energy Centre (1315 – 1345)

Caitlin Long (EMEC’s Environment & Consents Specialist) is presenting a poster within the poster presentation session on how EMEC can aid the development of a streamlined consenting process.

Day 1 | Risk Reduction: Towards more reliability (1705 – 1830)

Johannes Hüffmeier (RISE) discussing the RiaSoR 2 (Reliability in a Sea of Risk) project, and Gregory Pinon (Le Havre University) discussing the MONITOR project.

Day 2 | Solutions for Remote Areas (1330 – 1500) 

Neil Kermode (EMEC’s Managing Director) is presenting on ‘Joining the dots – from tidal energy to a hydrogen economy’ to demonstrate how EMEC are pioneering the transition from tidal energy to hydrogen.

Day 2 | Technologies getting wet, corroded and colonized (1330 – 1500)

Andrew Want (Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University) is presenting on ‘Bio-FREE in international collaboration to assess the impacts of biofouling on the marine renewable energy industry’ to discuss what the Bio-FREE project aims to achieve and progress to date.

Day 2 | Building the Blocks of Invisibility – Funding Leverages & Opportunities (1510 – 1625) 

Nicolas Wallet (EMEC’s FORESEA Programme Manager) will discuss the advancements FORESEA funding has made within the wave & tidal energy industry in his presentation – ‘FORESEA and the funding jigsaw for technology development’.

Day 2 | Building the blocks of investability: Rising the level of confidence (1645 – 1800)

Our project partner, Peter Scheijgrond (Dutch Marine Energy Centre), will speak about advancing IEC standardisation and certification for tidal energy converters as part of the MET-CERTIFIED project.

Day 2 | Technologies getting wet: wave (1645 – 1800)

Patrik Moller (CorPower) will provide an update on their activities testing at EMEC’s scale wave test site in Scapa Flow.

Day 3 | Updates for test sites (1030 – 1145)

Oliver Wragg (EMEC’s Commercial Director) is chairing this session, which will provide updates from test sites from around the globe including PMEC (USA), SEENEOH (France), BiMEP (Spain), and HINMREC (USA – Hawaii).

For the full ICOE programme, visit: ICOE conference programme (link removed as URL no longer in use by ICOE)

About ICOE 2018

Organised in 2018 by BlueSign in partnership with the Normandy region, Manche Department, Le Cotentin Communauté d’Agglomération and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, ICOE will be held in Cherbourg, Normandy, from June 12th to 14th in La Cité de la Mer.

Held every two years since 2006, ICOE aims at gathering stakeholders from the sector of ocean energies (tidal, wave, salinity gradient, ocean thermal energies) and sharing the most recent experiences on research, technology transfer efforts and technological demonstration.

The purpose of the event is to accelerate development by stimulating collaboration between companies, researchers and development centres. It also targets engagement of operators with experience in related marine and power industry sectors.

In 2018, ICOE will join forces with Seanergy – the largest event on Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) in Europe – which brought together in 2017, 3,500 experts and professionals, 220 exhibitors and helped organizing more than 800 business meetings.

The complementarity of these two events aims to combine scientific content and business opportunities in order to:
•Disseminate recent technical experiences and demonstration from ocean energy research
•Generate business for companies of the ocean energy sector
•Promote the economic and societal dimension of ocean energy
•Attract young people to work in the ocean energy field

For more information, visit: ICOE 2018 (link removed as URL no longer in use by ICOE)