News this week
Another busy week here at EMEC… Norwegian renewable energy company Flumill AS have announced this week that preparations are under way to install its first commercial tidal system at EMEC’s nursery tidal test site in the Shapinsay Sound. The device contains no moving parts and is designed to harvest power from the natural flow of Read More »
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Professor David Miles of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, and William Dowson, the Bank’s Scottish Agent, visited EMEC on Wednesday to find out more about developments taking place on Orkney in marine renewables. Afterwards, they headed to Lyness to view Wello Oy’s Penguin device and E.ON’s P2 Pelamis device. Earlier in the week, Read More »
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HRH The Duke of York visited the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) on Tuesday [September 6] as part of a trip to Orkney focused on the marine renewable industry. His Royal Highness met technology developers, and witnessed the cutting edge research into marine energy taking place in Orkney (see here for photos). Duarte Figueira, Head Read More »
Duke of York visits EMEC
HRH The Duke of York yesterday [Tuesday, September 6] visited the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) as part of a trip to Orkney focused on the marine renewable industry. Marine renewables fits a number of key areas as part of the Duke’s role in supporting the business community. Particular areas of emphasis include stimulating science Read More »
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EMEC was delighted to host John Robertson from The Crown Estate and Rob Saunders of the Technology Strategy Board recently. Accompanied by Neil Kermode, Jenny Norris and Matthew Finn, they had a very busy day visiting the Fall of Warness and Billia Croo where they witnessed various different tidal and wave energy devices in situ Read More »
News this week
It has been a busy few weeks at the Fall of Warness tidal test site. Following several successful retrieval and reinstallation works by Atlantis and TGL on the site, Voith have commenced work on installing the monopile for their tidal turbine. Voith Hydro Ocean Current Technologies is planning to develop a full-scale demonstration of its Read More »
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This weekend Stromness will be buzzing with the arrival of the Tall Ships. Orkney is now expecting over 24 Tall Ships – half those which left Greenock – to visit the county between July 15 and 19 on a non-competitive ‘Cruise in Company’ leg between Greenock and Lerwick, as part of The Tall Ships Races Read More »
New live webcam
EMEC have set up a new live Stromness webcam to coincide with the Tall Ships visit this weekend. The camera is in the EMEC office at the Old Academy in Stromness which gives an excellent elevated view across the bay. Eileen Linklater, EMEC’s Client and Marketing Manager said “we are extremely lucky to have such Read More »
Energy minister visits EMEC
Ewing welcomes marine renewables momentum as EMEC emerges as global headquarters for marine renewables Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism Fergus Ewing today welcomed a surge in interest in the development of marine renewable technologies which will see state of the art test facilities in Orkney fully utilised. On a visit to the European Marine Read More »
Billia Croo marker buoy changes
There are soon to be changes to the marker buoys at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site. The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) will be carrying out various maintenance activities around Orkney in July using the vessel NLV Polestar. As part of that they will be carrying out work at EMEC’s wave test site at Billia Read More »
