Blog: The league table of innovation
Our Managing Director, Neil Kermode, discusses the recently published European league table of innovation. It never ceases to amaze me how many people there are beavering away at trying to track abstract measures of performance. We become blasé about the figures that scroll across our screens, never really wondering how they are derived. But one Read More »
Blog: Third Innovation Call for Wave Energy Scotland
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is running the most extensive technology programme of its kind to find a commercially viable method of harvesting Scotland’s huge wave energy resource. The national research and development body’s third call will investigate the suitability of alternative materials for use in the wave energy sector. Steel has been used most widely Read More »
Press release: New European programme to fund open sea testing for ocean energy
The €11m FORESEA project brings together Europe’s leading ocean energy test facilities to help demonstration of tidal, wave and offshore wind energy technologies in real-sea conditions. The project is funded by the Interreg NWE (North-West Europe) programme, part of the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund). Led by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), the FORESEA Read More »
Blog: Tidal energy helps power 90 mile charity row around Orkney
On the 24th June 2016, two of EMEC‘s employees, Danielle Moodie and John Skuse, took part in a charity row around mainland Orkney. Danielle discusses the experience below: As an islander I have always been drawn to the sea. I find it relaxing and comforting to watch so it’s little wonder that when I tried Read More »
Press release: SME installs subsea rock anchors at EMEC tidal site
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has successfully installed four subsea rock anchors in the challenging tidal flows of the Fall of Warness at EMEC. In what is believed to be a world first Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has successfully completed installation of four subsea drilled rock anchors at its berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). The Read More »
Press release: EMEC and NNMREC further UK/US collaboration
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd, based in Orkney, Scotland, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC), based in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska in the USA, to encourage knowledge exchange and joint research activities. The two organisations originally began working together in 2012, with EMEC Read More »
Blog: SME wet test PLAT-O ahead of EMEC deployment
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has been conducting submergence tests of its PLAT-O tidal energy platform this week. The tests were carried out off Hatston Pier in Kirkwall with the 100kW device, complete with two 50kW Schottel SIT turbines, lifted into the water by Heddle Construction. These operations are taking place ahead of the first planned Read More »
Press release: €3.9m innovation funding for tidal energy in Orkney
The European Commission has awarded just over €3.9 million (£3.1 m) to support tidal energy testing and demonstration in Orkney waters. Awarded under the Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) scheme, the funding is split between two projects – the InToTidal project and Ocean 2G. Led by Tocardo, the InToTidal project will demonstrate integrated deployment solutions Read More »
Blog: SR2000 arrives in Orkney
We’re delighted to see Scotrenewables’ SR2000 – the world’s biggest and most powerful tidal turbine – arrive in Orkney. This marks the culmination of many, many, months of hard work and determination from the Scotrenewables’ team in Belfast where the device was built. The 550-tonne device left Belfast Harbour on Friday and was towed up Read More »
Press release: SME showcase German/UK innovation at Battle of Jutland centenary
100 years after the Battle of Jutland German and British firms showcase innovative new tidal energy solutions in Orkney Whilst German and British dignitaries, including The Princess Royal, Prime Minister David Cameron and German President Joachim Gauck, commemorated the Battle of Jutland in Orkney today visitors to HMS Bulwark at nearby Hatston Pier, in Kirkwall, Read More »
