Press release: EMEC named European Blue Economy Business of the Year
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been named ‘Blue Economy Business of the Year’ at the European Commission’s Blue Economy Business Awards 2016. Accepting the accolade at an awards ceremony in Hamburg last night [12 September 2016], EMEC’s Commercial Director, Oliver Wragg, said: “It’s an honour to accept this award on behalf of the Read More »
Blog: Welcoming Catrin and Rob to Team EMEC
Please join us in welcoming our two newest members of staff. Firstly, the newest member to the EMEC Commercial Team, Catrin Sutherland. The one-year Graduate Marketing Officer position (supported by Orkney Islands Council’s Economic Development Graduate Placement Scheme) will see Catrin support the implementation of EMEC’s marketing strategy, developing work packages for delivery to external projects, Read More »
Press release: Energy minister hails SR2000 “game changer” during Orkney visit
The world’s most powerful tidal turbine, which is due to begin testing in Orkney, has been hailed as a potential “game changer” by Business, Innovation and Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse. At 63m in length, Scotrenewables’ SR2000 is longer than Edinburgh’s Scott Monument and is capable of generating 2MW of power – enough to meet the Read More »
Press release: Last chance for EMEC subsidy for Environmental Technology Verification
€165k pot available to support technology businesses The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is seeking final applications to receive a discount of up to 50% for companies to verify their innovative environmental technologies. The subsidy is available via the EU Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) pilot programme – a tool to help technology developers reach the Read More »
Guest Blog: EMEC internship focuses on Scottish and Dutch collaboration opportunities
EMEC had the pleasure of hosting Dutch student Iris Hoefnagels for an internship this summer – here’s her view on the experience: In order to graduate for my Bachelor’s degree, I started my research internship at EMEC halfway through March of 2016. The internship lasted for close to four months, during which time I conducted research Read More »
Press release: EMEC shortlisted for Blue Economy Business Awards
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been shortlisted for the ‘Blue Economy Business of the Year’ award at the European Commission’s Blue Economy Business Awards 2016. Organised by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), the Blue Economy Business Awards aims to showcase excellent practices from industry, honouring those who have made Read More »
Blog: EMEC hellos and goodbyes
We’ve welcomed a couple of new members of staff on board recently, and with some internal job changes and a few goodbyes, we thought a short update was in order. Firstly, a warm welcome to Cath Russell who started at EMEC this week, taking on the role of PA to the Executive Team. Originally from Read More »
Blog: Getting to know Nic Wallet, FORESEA programme manager
FORESEA: Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action Nic Wallet has recently joined the EMEC team to oversee the management of the newly launched FORESEA programme (an Interreg-funded project which provides funding support to ocean energy technology developers to access Europe’s world-leading ocean energy test facilities). In this blog he reveals how he got Read More »
Blog: EMEC raft race 2016
The annual EMEC summer BBQ took on a whole new shape this year with the introduction of the big EMEC raft race. Four teams took part in a highly competitive and thrilling race on rafts skilfully designed and built by teams set up within EMEC. The teams had several weeks to gather their resources and Read More »
Press release: FORESEA programme opens first call for support package applications
The €11m FORESEA programme opened its first call for support package applications today. Successful applicants will receive free access to test ocean energy technologies in real sea conditions at the project’s network of open sea test centres. The programme is funded through Interreg NWE, part of the European Regional Development Fund. The FORESEA project was Read More »
