News this week
EMEC Staff will be at All-Energy 2009 in Aberdeen next week. We will be displaying on stand O2 in the Orkney area, so please come and say hello. Our new Commercial Director, Richard Morris and Operations Director, Stuart Baird will be present, therefore this will be an excellent opportunity to meet them in person. The Read More »
News this week
BWEA’s sixth annual event dedicated to wave and tidal stream energy took place in Bath this week. Over 450 delegates and 32 exhibitors attended the conference, including EMEC. The issues of Environmental Impacts, Grid and Infrastructure, Development and Deployment, and Major Marine Power Delivery, were the items under discussion at the presentations. Of major note Read More »
Standards update
Benchmarks for best practice have been drawn up for the fast emerging marine energy industry – to stimulate the development of wave and tidal power systems. EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, brought together an army of experts to produce the new guidelines. Designed to encourage a high quality approach to the challenge of Read More »
News this week
Hammerfest Strom have been successful in deploying an ADCP and turbulence meter in the Fall of Warness recently, preparatory to their device deployment in the coming months. Our Operations team have been busy on site at the Fall of Warness, deploying an ADCP and also at Billia Croo, conducting ROV surveys on the cables. EMEC Read More »
News this week
John Swift, from the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change visited our research team this week to discuss streamlining consents and decommissioning. He also took the opportunity to view the Billia Croo Wave test site and ongoing works there. Jenny Norris (Research and Consents Manager) and John Lawrence (Hydrodynamicist) will be speaking at Read More »
News this week
EMEC have been very busy over the past 2 weeks both in and out of the county and the country! Neil Kermode, MD, was at the SRF conference in Edinburgh, and Chris White Test Engineer ,was at a cable fault course in Chester. Jenny Norris, Research Manager, was involved in many research and consenting related Read More »
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Jennifer Norris our Research & Consents Manager attended the Natural Environment Research Council meeting on February 26 preceded by a Supergen meeting on February 25 in Edinburgh. On March 10 she attended the MESPG research sub group at the Scottish Government in Edinburgh. John Lawrence our Hydrodynamicist attended the MCA Hydrography seminar in Southampton in Read More »
News this week
The Operations Team were busy in the Fall of Warness this week taking out the ADCP. They were also working at Billia Croo erecting a new aerial onto the substation for waverider buoy reception. The Research Team spent two days this week with the Sea Mammal Research Unit initiating the wildlife observations project at the Read More »
News this week
Visitors to EMEC this week include European and US journalists on a US/European renewable energy tour with Scottish Development International (SDI). They received a presentation from Edwina Cook and continued their visit to Orkney with a charter boat out to the Fall of Warness. Also from the SDI this week we welcomed Mr Kouhei Oba, Read More »
E.ON on the crest of the wave
E.ON to test Pelamis wave power device as first step towards commercialisation E.ON, one of the UK’s leading renewable generators, has announced today (9th February 2009) that it will shortly be generating electricity from the waves. As part of its staged approach towards developing the potential of marine energy, E.ON will buy, install and test Read More »
