EMEC response to draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan
EMEC has responded to the Scottish Government’s draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan. We welcome the Scottish Government’s ambition to prepare Scotland for a just energy transition. The draft plan outlines the route map of actions the Scottish Government will take to deliver a vision to 2045 which envisages a flourishing net zero energy Read More »
EMEC win funding to drive green hydrogen innovation
EMEC awarded funding for four feasibility projects supporting green hydrogen innovation and development. The award comes as part of the Scottish Government’s Hydrogen Innovation Scheme through which 32 projects across Scotland are set to receive funding of £7 million to drive innovation in the production, storage and distribution of renewable hydrogen. Launched in June 2022, Read More »
TIGER project is driving growth of tidal energy in UK and France
The Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project (TIGER) that launched in 2019 to drive tidal energy growth in the UK and France, has successfully demonstrated the significant value tidal stream energy can bring to the future energy mix, economies and supply chains in both the UK and France. TIGER is the largest project funded by the Read More »
Highlands and Islands Enterprise mark 20 years of pioneering work by EMEC
Twenty years of pioneering marine energy work by Orkney’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) were celebrated this week at the All-Energy conference in Glasgow. The centre, headquartered in Stromness, remains the world’s first and only accredited grid-connected open sea facility for the testing of wave and tidal energy conversion technologies, operating to internationally recognised (UKAS) Read More »
OceanEnergy sign up to EMEC wave energy test berth
Irish wave energy developer, OceanEnergy, has signed up to demonstrate its OE35 floating wave energy converter at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. OceanEnergy intends to demonstrate the OE35 over two winter periods from 2024 at EMEC’s Billia Croo wave energy test site off the west coast of Orkney, Scotland. The 1 Read More »
20 years of EMEC instigates UK wide economic impact
Economic impact assessment spanning two decades of EMEC’s operations values impact of the test centre to UK economy at £370 million. The development of EMEC – the world’s first and leading test centre for marine energy – has had a significant impact in Orkney as well as across the UK economy in terms of employment, Read More »
