Events calendar
September 2013 – May 2014
Neil Kermode is speaking at the Orkney Science Festival on Friday 6th September 2013.
10 YEARS OF WAVE AND TIDE
The world’s first and only centre for marine energy open-sea testing is 10 years old. EMEC is attracting to Orkney waters the leading edge of marine energy technology. Managing director Neil Kermode, joined by representatives of several companies working in Orkney waters, looks ahead to the challenges and opportunities of the next 10 years.
Hosted by OREF
The future of clean, renewable ocean wave energy will be discussed in depth at the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference, held in Astoria, Oregon this year. This is the eighth annual ocean energy conference presented by Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET).
“Community and Industry: Collaboration, Innovation and Opportunity” is the theme of this year’s conference. With the completion of the Oregon Territorial Sea Plan (TSP) in early 2013 and selection by the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) of Newport as home of the new Pacific Marine Energy Center in-water, grid-connected South Energy Test Site (SETS), community and industry collaboration is the key to responsibly developing this new source of clean, renewable energy.
Don’t miss your opportunity to connect with industry and community leaders working to responsibly develop the industry.
To register, click here.
Further details and conference programme available at: http://www.oregonwave.org/events/2013-conference/
Celebrating its 10th year, the industry’s premier health and safety event will gather over 400 industry H&S professionals in Birmingham.
EMEC’s Operations Director, Stuart Baird, and Operations Manager, Graham Bleakley, will be attending the event. If you’d like to set up a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk with details.
Conference programme
Stuart Baird will also be speaking in the A3 Wave & Tidal Plenary: Traditional Risks in a New Environment. Hear first-hand experience from EMEC and the safety knowledge acquired from its global leading full scale and open sea testing facilities as well as contributions from the HSE and The Crown Estate.
For further information on the conference visit: Renewable UK Health & Safety Conference 2014
EMEC is exhibiting at Renewable UK’s Wave & Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Belfast on 26-27th February 2014.
Attending the event:
- Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
- John Griffiths, Technical Director
- Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing Officer
EMEC is exhibiting as part of SDI’s pavilion (stand 22a). If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.
Conference Programme
Oliver Wragg is chairing the B5 plenary: Wave Technology Showcase which will hear from some of the leading wave energy companies developing projects in the UK, with updates on their technologies’ current state of play and development lessons learned. The session will include talks from EMEC’s wave clients Aquamarine Power and Pelamis Wave Power.
Further technology updates will take place in the B6 plenary: Tidal Technology Showcase including talks from EMEC’s tidal clients ANDRITZ HYDRO Hammerfest, Alstom and Bluewater Energy Services.
Celebrating its 11th year, the industry’s premier wave and tidal energy event consistently attracts 600+ delegates comprising investors, project and technology developers including decision makers from government and business with responsibilities across the UK, Europe and international markets.
For further information on the conference visit: Renewable UK Wave & Tidal Conference 2014
EMEC’s External Liaison Max Carcas will be speaking at the Scottish Renewables Annual Conference and Exhibition taking place on 18-19th March 2014 in Edinburgh.
Max is speaking on Day 2 in the Finance Conference in the Wave and Tidal plenary along side Chris Stark, Head of Electricity at the Scottish Government. Calum Davidson, Director of Energy and Low Carbon at Highlands and Islands Enterprise will be chairing the session.
For further information on the conference visit: Scottish Renewables Annual Conference and Exhibition 2014
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Background
Standards and guidelines are fundamental to the development of the marine renewable sector. In 2009 the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) released a suite of 12 standards and guidelines on behalf of the marine renewable energy industry (www.emec.org.uk/standards). Topics covered include assessment of energy resources, performance of devices, guidelines for certification, grid connection, tank testing, and project development.
Each document in the suite was written by an acknowledged expert and progressed by a working group with individuals representing technology developers, regulators, academia, utilities, and project developers – a true cross-section of the marine energy industry. More than 4,000 copies of these documents have been distributed worldwide, with 6 of these being progressed via the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for global adoption as the first international standards for marine renewable energy.
As with any standards, it is important that these documents are reviewed regularly and the need for new standards identified. In March 2014, EMEC, in collaboration with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult), facilitated a workshop to review the existing suite of EMEC standards and identify areas where new standards require to be developed.
Workshop details
The workshop was held on Tuesday 25th March 2014 at the BMA Conference Centre, Edinburgh.
The purpose of the workshop was to:
- Review the existing EMEC standards and guidelines and their further development by the IEC;
- Investigate the requirement for new standards or guidelines in additional topic areas.
The full workshop programme is available to download below:
The draft proposal for four new marine energy standards/guidelines, which was presented in the morning session and further explored in the afternoon breakout sessions is also available to download:
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Report
The report from the workshop is available to download on the ORE Catapult website: Review of Standards for Marine Renewables (Wave & Tidal)
EMEC is exhibiting at the International Convention for Marine Renewable Energy (THETIS MRE) in Cherbourg, France on 9-10th April 2014.
Attending the event:
- Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
- Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship & Marketing Manager
EMEC is exhibiting as part of SDI’s pavilion. If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.
Programme
Day 1 @ 10.30am: How do MRE projects handle the social impact on maritime users?
Oliver is speaking in this session, providing an insight into the lessons learnt from 10 years of marine energy experience.
Poster presentation
EMEC is also presenting a poster on the Integrated Marine Energy Measurement Platform that EMEC has developed to measure a variety of parameters in strong tidal flows, such as at EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal test site, off the island of Eday, in Orkney.
For further information on the conference visit: THETIS MRE
Oliver Wragg, EMEC’s Commercial Director, will be attending the Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference (GMREC) in Seattle, Washington, USA 15-18th April 2014.
If you’d like to set up a meeting with Oliver please contact info@emec.org.uk.
Oliver is chairing the North American Research Initiatives session at 10am on Wednesday 16th April. He will be joined by speakers from the three US national marine renewable energy centres (NNMREC, SNMREC, and HINMREC), the Victoria west coast wave initiative, the UNH Center for Ocean Renewable Energy, and the US Navy.
The full conference programme is available online: GMREC 2014 programme
For further information on the conference visit: GMREC 2014
EMEC will be attending the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies (EIMR) Conference in Stornoway on 30th April – 1st May 2014.
Attending the event:
- Jennifer Norris, Research Director
- Christina Bristow, Research and Consents Officer
- Michael Butler, Acoustic Engineer
Poster presentations
EMEC is presenting three posters at the EIMR conference on the following topics:
- EMEC land-based surface visual wildlife observations programmes
- EMEC integrated environmental monitoring platform
- Synchronisation of environmental monitoring across European wave and tidal test centres (Part of the FP7 MaRINET Project)
For further information on the conference visit: EIMR 2014
Christina Bristow, EMEC’s Research & Consents Officer, is speaking at the Pro-Tide Ecology Master Class on 14th May 2014 in the Isle of Wight.
The purpose of the Master Class is to look at current best practice in Environmental Impact Assessment for tidal energy projects and devices and to start to develop a protocol for environmental monitoring programmes.
Christina will be talking about environmental monitoring for tidal energy projects at EMEC. The full programme is available here: Pro-Tide Master Class Agenda
For further information and details on how to book, visit: Pro-Tide Ecology Master Class
