News this week
EMEC staff recently visited Datawell in Holland to discuss wave measurement data quality. Datawell are one of EMEC’s key suppliers and their Waverider buoy measurements are central to our UKAS accredited Wave Performance Assessment services. The accreditation is maintained with regular yearly visits from UKAS and a three yearly re-accreditation when the Lead Assessor from Read More »
News this week
This week EMEC decamped to Aberdeen for the All-Energy exhibition and conference, where we had a stand as part of the Orkney Pavilion. The show, held annually, was this year attended by almost 7000 visitors over two days. Neil Kermode spoke at the conference session “Wave and tidal – setting the scene” to give an Read More »
Marine energy test centre to operate on new scale
Scotland’s world-leading test centre for commercial-scale wave and tidal energy devices is expanding, to attract international businesses with smaller prototypes at earlier development stages. The Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has now identified “nursery sites” in the islands to plug the vital gap between test tanks and full ocean conditions for unproven energy devices. Read More »
News this week
A specialised cable laying ship is due in Orkney this week to carry out work for EMEC. EMEC has chartered the CS Sovereign to lay three new seabed cables, two at the test site for tidal technologies at the Fall of Warness off Eday and one at the wave test site at Billia Croo near Read More »
News this week
This week EMEC was visited by Professor David Sugden, Professor Alan Werritty and Dr Marc Rands of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Royal Society is currently undertaking an Inquiry into the opportunities and problems associated with a move to a low-carbon economy in Scotland. The Inquiry Committee having heard a lot about the achievements Read More »
EMEC joins Team Stromness event as part of Scottish Renewables Festival
EMEC, the wave and tidal energy test centre, will be exhibiting alongside a range of Stromness projects this Saturday (12 June). The “Showcasing Team Stromness” event, being held in the Stromness Community Centre, coincides with the Scottish Renewables Festival being held all this week. Neil Kermode, EMEC Managing director said: “the Scottish Renewables Festival is Read More »
News this week
We are delighted to announce that we have now appointed 3 members of staff to bolster the EMEC team – Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Norris, (our longest serving member of staff), who has been appointed Research Director, to Christina Bristow who is moving to Orkney to join EMEC as Research and Consents Assistant and to Read More »
News this week
On 17 April a bunch of intrepid staff from EMEC and Aquamarine Power (plus family and friends) joined in the annual Environmental Concern Orkney (ECO) “Back the Bruck” campaign. On a wet afternoon the volunteers (pictured) tackled the beach at Billia Croo and gathered a mountain of marine waste which had been washed and blown Read More »
Press release
Vital research work is being pioneered in Orkney that will steer the way electricity is harnessed from the sea. With more prototype and “next generation” devices due to be tested at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, new methods are being developed to assess the impact of wave and tidal devices on the local Read More »
New work on global standards
The world’s first full-scale marine energy test centre has put forward the first set of global standards for judging the performance of wave and tidal-powered devices. The draft standards have been developed under the leadership of the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, to achieve common worldwide yardsticks in the pioneering field of sea power. Now Read More »
