Blog: Smart power flows at the island edge
Ethnographer of Futures and Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen, Laura Watts, talks about her response to the UK National Infrastructure Commission’s vision for the future of the electricity grid in her guest blog. Laura Watts is visiting Orkney this week to launch ebban an’ flowan, the world’s first poetic primer to marine renewable Read More »
Press release: International WaTERS meet at ICOE 2016
Marine energy test centres from across Europe, the Americas and Asia continue discussions on common issues and standards The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has today [26 February 2016] hosted the third International WaTERS (Wave and Tidal Energy Research Sites) workshop. Nine countries were represented from around the globe including Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Read More »
Press release: EMEC seeks feedback from industry for P2-002
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is seeking ideas on future learning opportunities and R&D projects which may benefit from utilising the Pelamis P2-002 wave energy prototype. The P2-002 is a 750kW wave energy converter, developed by Pelamis Wave Power, and tested at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site by ScottishPower Renewables from 2012-2014. The Read More »
Press release: Tocardo sign up to test 20-year T2 tidal array at EMEC
Tocardo has signed up to demonstrate a 20 year pre-commercial array at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. The contract was signed at the International Conference for Ocean Energy (ICOE) being held in Edinburgh this week. Tocardo plans to install eight T2 turbines across two Tocardo systems at EMEC’s grid-connected tidal test Read More »
Press release: Energy companies learn about Orkney’s marine energy credentials on ICOE day trip
Energy companies from across the globe visited Orkney yesterday (Monday 22nd February) and saw first hand why it is the location to test and demonstrate marine energy development projects. The first class wave and tidal conditions in Orkney have attracted marine energy developers for many years and particularly since the inception of the European Read More »
Press release: Horizon2020 grant €10m to Scotrenewables FloTEC project
The European Commission’s largest research and innovation programme, Horizon2020, has awarded a grant of €10 million (£7.75m) to advance the commercialisation of Scotrenewables’ floating tidal energy technology. The Floating Tidal Energy Commercialisation (FloTEC) project will demonstrate the potential for floating tidal systems to provide low-cost, high-value energy to the European grid mix. Scotland’s Energy Minister, Read More »
Press release: ORE Catapult and EMEC ‘TAP’ into marine technology development journey
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and EMEC launch Technology Assessment Process (TAP) to de-risk marine energy technology development EMEC are delighted to be collaborating with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult on the Technology Assessment Process (TAP), launched at the International Conference for Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Edinburgh today. TAP has been designed to support wave and tidal energy technology Read More »
Press release: Sustainable Marine Energy buys 16 turbines from SCHOTTEL Hydro
Over the next two years SCHOTTEL HYDRO will deliver 16 SCHOTTEL Instream Turbines (SIT) with a capacity of 62 kW each to Sustainable Marine Energy (SME). The British company has signed a long term contract with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and will build a platform array in Scotland, off the Orkney Islands. Following Read More »
Press release: LAMWEC project to prove Laminaria WEC survivability
Flemish wave energy developer Laminaria has joined forces with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Innosea, Ghent University, and TTI Testing to support the development of their novel wave energy converter (WEC). Funded under the OCEANERA-NET First Joint Call 2014, the LAMWEC project seeks to develop and test a 100kW Laminaria WEC, progressing from TRL Read More »
Press release: Reliability in a Sea of Risk: developing a reliability testing culture for ocean energy
Three of the leading European research and testing sites embark on development of a methodology to improve reliability in marine energy converters Scotland’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is working with the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden to improve reliability testing, with the aim of building robustness Read More »
