Blog: EMEC to host workshop to update marine renewables standards
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in collaboration with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, will host a workshop on 25th March 2014 to review the existing suite of marine renewable energy standards (wave & tide) and identify areas where new standards require to be developed. The workshop is free to attend but places are limited Read More »
Blog: Missing the Boat?
This week Neil Kermode attended an Island Grid Summit in Stornoway convened by Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. Here he reflects on the grid issues we face: ‘Missing the Boat’ is a literal problem on a daily basis for many in Orkney. As an archipelago you are never far from the water and the coming Read More »
Press release: £4.8 million boost to marine energy sector
Scotland’s marine energy sector is to benefit from almost £5 million as the distribution of funding from two initiatives is to be announced by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing during the RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Belfast today (Wednesday). Speaking ahead of the event, Mr Ewing said five marine energy innovation projects are Read More »
Press release: EMEC awarded MRCF funding to develop unique tidal energy monitoring system
The Scottish Government has awarded a share of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to support the further development of an integrated site characterisation and measurement platform for high energy marine environments. The support of the MRCF Array Technology Innovation Programme (ATIP) will enable EMEC to further develop, Read More »
Press release: Two new Directors appointed to Board of EMEC
Two prominent figures in the energy industry have been appointed to the Board of Europe’s leading marine energy testing facility. The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), based in Orkney, is the first and only centre of its kind in the world to provide developers of both wave and tidal energy converters – technologies that generate Read More »
Blog: New wave and tidal magazine focuses on Orkney
A new magazine focusing exclusively on wave and tidal energy has been launched online. The first edition of Wave & Tidal Energy Network is now available to download, with the print version due to be launched at RenewableUK’s Wave and Tidal Conference next week. Showcasing some fantastic marine renewables imagery, the ‘Spotlight’ for this issue Read More »
Blog: RUK Wave & Tidal Conference (26-27 February)
EMEC is exhibiting at Renewable UK’s Wave & Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Belfast on 26-27th February 2014. Oliver Wragg, EMEC’s Commercial Director will be attending the event, alongside John Griffiths (Technical Director) and Lisa MacKenzie (Marketing Officer). EMEC is exhibiting as part of SDI’s pavilion (stand 22a). If you’d like to set up a Read More »
Blog: Great footage of Voith turbine deployment at Fall of Warness
This video by SAL Offshore provides great insight into one example of a prototype tidal turbine installation. Filmed in September 2013 the video shows the first time the Voith turbine is deployed in the turbulent tidal conditions at EMEC’s tidal test site at the Fall of Warness, off Eday. The video begins in Stavanger in Read More »
Blog: Welcoming our new QHSE Manager
We’d like to introduce you to Dave Wakefield, our new QHSE Manager, who is standing in for Lesley Howard while she is on maternity leave. Originally from the coastal town of Worthing in Sussex, Dave first visited Orkney in 2001 with his wife and was immediately attracted to the county’s beauty and charm. They continued Read More »
Blog: CNN’s Make, Create, Innovate on wave power
Late last year, CNN visited Orkney to find out more about wave power for Make, Create, Innovate – a new science and technology series that tells the stories behind the inventions and technological breakthroughs that are reshaping our world. Watch the video below to see Nick Glass get up close to a Pelamis wave energy Read More »
