News this week
Hammerfest Strom have been successful in deploying an ADCP and turbulence meter in the Fall of Warness recently, preparatory to their device deployment in the coming months.
Our Operations team have been busy on site at the Fall of Warness, deploying an ADCP and also at Billia Croo, conducting ROV surveys on the cables.
EMEC will be present at the BWEA conference in Bath at the end of this month, 30th April. We will have a stand and are sponsoring the evening reception on the 29th, and look forward to meeting many of you there and explaining the recent work undertaken on standards and future activities at both test sites.
We will also be showing at the All Energy exhibition in May again, May 20th and 21st in Aberdeen, see our stand at O2 in the Orkney Energy section. Visit All Energy website for further details of this rapidly expanding renewables showcase.
Two developers have been out on the tidal site this week, one continuing their testing procedure and another recommencing their deployment.
Caroline Wickham-Jones teaches at Aberdeen University and is co-director with Sue Dawson (University of Dundee) of the Rising Tide, a project to investigate former sea level change and the early settlement of Orkney. See an article published in the monthly magazine, Archaeology, The Voice of Archaeology in Britain and Beyond, May/June 2009.
Visitors to EMEC in the past 2 weeks have included Darius Snieckers, journalist from Recharge and Alex Reid and Alison Hunt from the Off-Shore Renewables Team – Saltire Prize, Scottish Government. They had a trip to the wave test site at Billia Croo, viewing the infrastructure works that are ongoing at the site at the moment. Photograph above shows Alex and Alison in EMEC’s offices.
Finally, EMEC welcomes two further members of staff this week, Stuart Baird, our new Operations Director and Richard Morris, our new Commercial Director. We look forward to a long and successful working period with them at EMEC, particularly in the next busy months of deployment activity expected at both sites. Welcome to Orkney and EMEC!
