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Blog: EMEC 2022 review

Energy moved to centre stage in 2022, not because of climate change, but because of the war in Ukraine. The huge rise in fossil fuel prices has fuelled inflation and is leading to widespread hardship. Thank goodness for renewables as the financial impact of the war would have been even greater had we not been Read More »


EMEC search for 2023 Earthshot champions

The search is on for The Earthshot Prize 2023 The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is continuing its role as an Official Nominator for the second year running. EMEC joined The Earthshot Prize as an Official Nominator in 2022, following the Prince and Princess of Wales, then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visiting EMEC to Read More »


Press release: EMEC supplies hydrogen to Rolls-Royce jet engine ground test

Green hydrogen produced at EMEC (European Marine Energy Centre)’s hydrogen production and tidal test facility has been used to fuel the ground test of a Rolls-Royce jet engine. The engine test was progressed through a partnership between Rolls-Royce and easyJet who, earlier this year, committed to working together on a hydrogen technology demonstrator programme. Today, Read More »


Press release: EuropeWave reserves berths at BiMEP and EMEC

EuropeWave has reserved berths at the open-water test sites of the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country, Spain, and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. The final phase (Phase 3) of the EuropeWave programme will see three prototype wave energy converter systems deployed in the Spring of 2025 for Read More »


Press release: AWS share initial results from testing at EMEC

Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy has released initial results from the current phase of sea trials of its wave energy device at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. During the scientific testing programme at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site, the Waveswing wave energy converter captured average power over 10 kW and peaks of 80 Read More »


Press release: New report highlights promising tidal energy cost reduction pathway

Tidal stream energy could plummet below £80 per MWh by 2035 if current opportunity is realised, a new industry-leading report has predicted. The ‘Cost Reduction Pathway of Tidal Stream Energy in the UK and France’ report, produced by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult as part of the Interreg FCE funded TIGER project, documents the Read More »


Press Release: Ambitious wave energy project sets course for EMEC demo

A €19.6 million partnership project aiming to be the stepping stone towards large scale wave energy commercialisation, will be launched this week at the International Conference on Ocean Energy in San Sebastian, Spain. WEDUSEA is a pioneering collaboration between 14 partners, spanning industry and academia from across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain. It Read More »


Press release: EMEC concludes concept design on 100 MW floating wind test site

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), based in Orkney, Scotland, has concluded concept design for a new 100 MW floating offshore wind test and demonstration site. As the world’s leading, and only accredited, ocean energy test facility EMEC is aiming to secure a lease for a site ~20 km west of Orkney, further out to Read More »


Consultation: EMEC Fall of Warness Section 36 extension

EMEC is requesting an extension to its Section 36 consent to operate at the Fall of Warness tidal test site. The current Section 36, granted in March 2016, expires in March 2023. EMEC has requested a variation to extend the consent to March 2026. The application documents are available to download below. Statutory body responses, Read More »


Press release: Public support investment in renewables to lower energy bills

Polling published today by Survation, commissioned by RenewableUK, shows that there is overwhelming public support for building new wind and solar farms to tackle the cost of energy crisis, and that the Conservatives risk losing voters if they fail to support renewables. 77% of people throughout the UK think the new Government should use new Read More »


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