News this week
We were very pleased to welcome John Lawrence into EMEC this week, taking up his position as Hydrodynamicist. He is making Orkney his home, soon to be followed by his family and has relocated from his previous home on Bodmin Moor and his work at Plymouth University. Glad to have you on board John! Watch Read More »
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EMEC has welcomed two members of the Scottish Government to their offices over the past two weeks – Fiona Harrison (Head of the Marine Transition Unit); Ian Davies, FRS; Phil Alcock, Marine Management Division; and Evanthia Karpouzli, Ecological Advisor visited on July 22nd. They went out to the Fall of Warness and out to Eday Read More »
Scotland gets on stream
PRESS RELEASE FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION NEW RESOURCE HELPS SCOTLAND UNDERSTAND TIDAL STREAM TECHNOLOGY Scotland has huge opportunities for renewable tidal power but surveys shows few people understand it, says the Sustainable Development Commission. If this potential is to be exploited and developed in a reasonable timescale, Scotland needs to increase understanding to help inform Read More »
OPT to test at EMEC
A company developing ocean-going buoys that convert wave energy into electricity will test their latest technology at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) have signed an agreement for their 150 kilowatt PowerBuoy to undergo extensive trials at EMEC’s wave energy test site off Stromness. The PowerBuoy PB150 is expected to Read More »
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EMEC was pleased to welcome a group from Peniche in Portugal, to their facilities in Stromness last week. They included the Mayor of Peniche and the Vice Mayor of Torres Vedras. They met with officials from Orkney Islands Council and also with OREF chairman Gareth Davies and ICIT Professor, Jon Side. A previous visitor to Read More »
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Work continues at the Fall of Warness with two developers and in view of that, we have issued a press release to remind mariners of the possibility of vessel manoeuvres in that area. EMEC reminder to mariners EMEC, is making a fresh request for shipping to give a wide berth to the tidal energy test Read More »
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Two developers continue their testing programmes in the Fall of Warness this week. We were pleased to welcome four representatives of the Chinese Government to EMEC this week, based at the Chinese Embassy in London. They had productive presentations at EMEC, ICIT and met with representatives of HIE and OIC. Pictured are Ms Fan Jiang, Read More »
News this week
The Fall of Warness continues to be busy with two developers on site. Jennifer Norris, Research Manager and Matthew Finn, Research Assistant held a successful first EMEC Monitoring Advisory Group meeting in Aberdeen on June 9th, attended by regulators, key advisors, Scottish Government, and BERR (Research Advisory Group). Jennifer Norris will be at the Scottish Read More »
News this week
Visitors last week were many and varied! The start of the week saw the visit of a Swedish wave developer ‘Seabased‘ to EMEC’s offices and wave test site. Tuesday saw the visit of Flotta Primary School as part of their project work on renewable energy. On Wednesday, Edwina Cook gave a presentation to the North Read More »
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All-Energy 2008 proved to be as busy as it ever was last week and we had a steady stream of visitors to the stand. EMEC were assisting both developers and the National Museum in Edinburgh to display information and this was of great interest to our visitors. You may have noticed the new animation on Read More »
