News this week
Richard Morris, EMEC’s commercial director today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ocean Energy Association of Japan (OEAJ), with the potential for EMEC to provide advice and support in the development of a Japan Marine Energy Centre (JMEC). Click here for the full press release. The announcement has attracted a lot of attention from Read More »
Japanese collaboration agreement
EMEC to support development of Japanese Marine Energy Centre SCOTLAND’S world-leading marine and tidal energy development facility, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), today (Friday, March 9, 2012) announces a major international collaboration to develop Japan’s first marine energy test centre. EMEC has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ocean Energy Association of Japan Read More »
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Wello Oy have announced that they are ready to deploy their Penguin wave energy converter at the Billia Croo wave test site for the first time. The Penguin has been undergoing testing at Lyness since arriving in Orkney last summer, and has now been granted permission for full-scale deployment by Marine Scotland. Click here for Read More »
News this week
The Future of Marine Renewables in the UK: Report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee “Britannia really could rule the waves when it comes to marine renewable energy” (Tim Yeo, ECCC Chair) EMEC welcomes the report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) supporting the wave and tidal energy industry in the UK. Read More »
News this week
Funding initiatives The second round of the valuable WATERS (Wave and Tidal Energy: Research, Development and Demonstration Support) fund opened this week with a further £6 million of funding available for wave and tidal technology development. The primary focus of the WATERS 2 fund is to support the construction and deployment of wave and tidal Read More »
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EMEC welcomes plans for a new offshore renewables hub announced by the UK government earlier this week. The headquarters of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult will be based in Glasgow at Strathclyde University, with its operational centre based at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) in North-East England. This is a significant milestone for Read More »
Funding for EMEC scale sites
International wave and tidal energy technology developers have less than three weeks to apply for funded access to EMEC’s scale test facilities through global marine research organisation MaRINET (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for Emerging Energy Technologies). MaRINET has offered to cover the costs of access to EMEC’s test sites for non UK-based wave and tidal Read More »
Orkney maritime safety improved
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd’s lookout post at the Black Craig is now supporting the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) with vital radio coverage on the west coast of Orkney. The Black Craig lookout point, which EMEC uses as an environmental observation point for its wave test site at Billia Croo, stands at Read More »
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EMEC are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for the prestigious Offshore Achievement Awards in the Offshore Renewables category. The Offshore Renewables Award recognises technical excellence in an offshore marine renewables project, and is judged on outstanding design, significant innovation, and unusual complexity and scale. The awards ceremony will be held in March Read More »
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EMEC wish everyone in China a Happy New Year as they enter the Year of the Dragon – a symbol of good fortune, ambition, enterprise and innovation. We look forward to working closer with the Ocean University of China and Qingdao Municipal Science and Technology Commission, based in the Shandong Province of China, and wish Read More »
