EMEC is exhibiting at Ocean Energy Europe’s annual conference in Paris on the 1st-2nd October 2014.

Attending the conference:

• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
• Elaine Buck, Technical Business Development Manager
• Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship & Marketing Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing & Communications Officer

If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Exhibition:

EMEC is exhibiting with Scottish Development International on Stand no.2.

Not to be missed:

Day 1 – 1^st October

• 1135-1235: EMEC tidal clients Alstom (Erick Pelerin) and OpenHydro (James Ives) are showcasing their technologies in the Tidal Energy Technology Showcase.
• 1345-1445: EMEC wave clients Pelamis (Richard Yemm) and Aquamarine Power (Martin McAdam) will be showcasing their technologies in the Wave Energy Technology Showcase.

Day 2 – 2^nd October

• 1430-1600: Oliver Wragg is speaking in the ‘Infrastructure: Connecting Prototypes and Commercial Projects’ session, outlining the current infrastructure options and long-term plans to address these short and long-term challenges.

Further details on the programme are available here: Conference programme

Ocean Energy Europe 2014 brings together the biggest players and sharpest minds in the ocean energy sector for two days of intensive discussion and debate. It offers you the chance to network, generate profile for your company and obtain access to the decision makers, thought leaders, investors and entrepreneurs who are most influential in the sector.

Ocean Energy Europe 2014 will feature:

• An Ocean Energy Forum Ministerial Summit featuring several European Energy Ministers, regional leaders and senior industry representatives
• 350 – 400 attendees made up of key players from industry, research and political institutions
• High-level speakers including drawn from our extensive network of key industry figures
• Simulataneous translation
• A 40+ stand high value exhibition area
• Side events such as brokerage workshops, press conferences and political roundtables
• High profile location in the centre of Paris

For further information on the conference, visit: Ocean Energy Europe’s annual conference

Oliver Wragg will be attending the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF 2014) in Miama, USA, 6-8th October 2014. If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Oliver is speaking in the ‘Offshore Renewables – If not now, when?’ session at 1100 on Wednesday 8th October 2014.

The full programme is available here: Conference programme

For further information on the conference visit: CREF 2014

We are exhibiting and speaking at the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 4-6th November 2014.

Attending the conference:

• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
• Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship & Marketing Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing & Communications Officer

If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Exhibition:

EMEC is exhibiting with Scottish Development International on the Scotland stand. Please pop past for an update on EMEC’s testing facilities and expanding service offering.

Don’t miss:

Wednesday 5th November:

• 1200: Oliver is speaking about EMEC’s Integrated Environmental Monitoring Platform in the ‘Measurement, Communication, and Monitoring’ session (hosted by Ifremer).
• 1430: Neil is providing a talk on International Test Centres in the ‘Industry Development Centres’ session (hosted by WaveHub).

The full conference programme is available to view here: Conference programme

International Open-water Test Centres Workshop:

To build on EMEC’s Global Ocean Energy symposium held in 2013, we are hosting a workshop for international open-water test centres on 7th November 2014. The workshop aims to establish a global network of open-sea marine energy test centres, providing a forum to discuss key R&D topics and identify actions to forge relationships and knowledge transfer between test sites.

In order to ensure focused discussion, this event is by invitation only.

For further information, visit:  ICOE Workshop: International open-water test centres

ICOE is the global venue for exchange of information and building relationships, in order to grow a world-wide marine renewable energy industry. ICOE was first established in 2006 and is now held every two years. It has grown to almost 1000 participants from almost 40 countries, had a significant tradeshow in 2012, and is now recognized as the world’s pre-eminent industry-development event.

The goal of the conference and exhibition is to advance industry development by sharing recent experiences from development, demonstration and technology transfer efforts. It aims to accelerate development by stimulating collaboration between companies, researchers and development centres. It also targets engagement of operators with experience in related marine and power industry sectors.

Hosted by Marine Renewables Canada in partnership with the Government of Canada, Government of Nova Scotia, and Offshore Energy Research Association, the 2014 ICOE will be a North American first.

For further information on the conference visit: ICOE 2014

Eileen Linklater, EMEC’s Client Relationship and Marketing Manager, is speaking at Tidal Today’s International Tidal Energy Summit in London, 24-26th November 2014.

Real sea testing – powering marine energy R&D

Eileen is speaking on Day 1 (25th November)  at 1515 on ‘Real sea testing – powering marine energy R&D’:

• With over a decade of experience, EMEC is attracting developers from around the globe to prove what is achievable in the harshest of marine environments
• The pioneering work on EMEC’s test sites has given rise to a range of R&D projects aiming to reduce cost and increase reliability as developers move to demonstration arrays
• Spanning a number of important themes, case studies from EMEC will be presented on: vessel support, data collection, wildlife observations, acoustic monitoring, subsea cabling, performance testing and standards development.

A number of EMEC’s tidal clients are also speaking throughout the event, including:

• Andritz Hydro Hammerfest
• Alstom
• Atlantis
• Bluewater Energy Services
• OpenHydro

For further information, visit: Conference Programme

For further information on the conference visit: ITES 2014

EMEC is hosting the ‘European Open-Water Ocean Energy Test Sites’ session at the Atlantic Stakeholder Conference in Porto, Portugal on Tuesday 20th January 2015.

The session will identify key issues of common interest across the marine energy test sites, share relevant information and enable lessons to be learnt which will speed up the development of new wave and tidal technologies. This could include common standards for health and safety, environmental monitoring methodologies and data sharing, and common operating procedures.

Oliver Wragg, EMEC Commercial Director, will speak alongside:

• Joaquín Hernández-Brito, Manager at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)
• Anna Brito e Melo, Executive Director at WavEC Offshore Renewables (WavEC)
• Izan Le Crom, MRE Project Manager-Development & Operation Test Site SEM-REV
• John Breslin, General Manager at Smartbay Islands

The full conference programme is available to download here: Atlantic stakeholder conference – Porto

EMEC are exhibiting at the Renewable UK Wave & Tidal Conference and Exhibition on 25th-26th February 2015. You’ll find us on stand 14.

Attending the conference

• Andrew Mill, Chairman
• John Griffiths, Technical and Compliance Director
• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
• Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship & Marketing Manager
• Matthew Finn, Senior Business Development Manager
• Elaine Buck, Technical Business Development Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing & Communications Officer

If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Conference highlights

The conference programme is packed with interesting talks from some of the leading experts in the field of wave and tidal energy, including many of our clients and technology developers from around the world. We’ve highlighted some key sessions below, with the Full Conference Programme available online.

Day 1: 25th February 2015

• Turbulence at tidal energy sites workshop: Matthew Finn is attending The Crown Estate’s workshop with group sessions on turbulence for energy resource assessment, engineering design, and array design, including field data requirements. The workshop will consider the formation of industry guidance on turbulence and will determine future requirements for further research. For further details see: Workshop Agenda
• B2:Joined Up Thinking: Creating Grid Connected Projects: Neil Kermode will be chairing this session looking at the challenges facing projects seeking a connection at the fringes of the grid network. Panellists include Max Carcas (Caelulum Ltd) and Neil Davidson (Aquamarine Power).
• A3: Tidal Technology Showcase: Progress Report: Speaking alongside some of the other leading tidal energy developers, James Murray from Scotrenewables Tidal Power will provide an update on the development of the SR2000 2MW turbine, due to be tested at EMEC later in 2015.
• B3: Wave Energy: Applied Sector Research: Dr Joseph van’t Hoff, Senior Numerical Modelling Engineer at Aquamarine Power will explore how data analysis is being used to inform the future design of the Oyster technology and the company’s commercialisation plans.

Day 2: 26th February 2015

• A5: The First Arrays: Status Update: John Griffiths is chairing this session, with speakers from Meygen (Dan Pearson), Carnegie Wave Energy (Tim Sawyer), OpenHydro (Sue Barr) and Alstom Power (Robert Stevenson) providing insight into some of the first array projects being developed around the world.
• B7: Globalising Wave & Tidal Energy: Key Markets and Development Prospects: Oliver Wragg is providing an update on the progress of developing a global network of test centres to encourage collaboration.

Jenny Norris, EMEC’s Research Director, is attending Ocean Business 2015 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, on 14-16th April.

If you’d like to meet with Jenny at the conference, please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Special Session on Marine Renewable Energy

“Update on technology and tools to de-risk and streamline marine energy development”
Thursday 16th April, 1200-1800: NOC Seminar Room, free to attend (also available via webinar)

Jenny is attending this final event for the NERC-Defra Marine Renewable Energy research programme. This session will review the contribution of the NERC – DEFRA funded research and knowledge exchange programmes to development of novel technology, tools and methods, and consider the needs for the industry going forward.

Join the webinar at EMEC: If you based in Orkney, EMEC are linking into this session via a webinar so please pop along if you’d like to join all or part of it.

Programme:

Main Research Programme
1300: Introduction by Dr Annie Linley
1310: Application of X band radar for resource assessment: Case studies from the European Marine Energy Centre and the Inner Sound, Pentland Firth
1330: Development of the FLOWBEC (Flow-and-Benthic-Ecology-4D) seabed platform
1350: Application of telemetry and visual observations for mapping fine scale habitat use by seals
1410: Impacts of operational noise on harbour porpoises
1430: Programme break: a short film will be shown
1445: Maximising energy extraction at wave and tidal energy sites whilst optimising environmental benefit
1505: Development of telemetry for understanding fish movements around offshore windfarms
1525: Baited video and other methods for monitoring post deployment impacts on fisheries at energy farms
Knowledge exchange programme
1615: Introduction by Dr Annie Linley
1625: Fish responses to impulsive noise
1645: Review and update of Collision Risk Models for predicting potential collisions of birds with turbine blades
1705: Interactions between fisheries and renewable energy development
1745: Seminar closes

For further details, visit: Special Session on Marine Renewable Energy

Dave Wakefield, EMEC’s ETV Manager, is attending Sustainability Live 2015 at the NEC, Birmingham, on 21st-23rd April.

As a verification body for Environmental Technology Verification (ETV), EMEC is exhibiting at the event to raise awareness of the scheme alongside other UK verification bodies. You find us on Stand H11: Environmental Technology Verification Scheme (located in the NEMEX Energy Management Exhibition hall).

If you’d like to set up a meeting with Dave, or would like to hear more on EMEC-ETV, please contact ETV@emec.org.uk or call 01856 852060.

What is ETV?

Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a tool to help innovative environmental technologies reach the market. The Statement of Verification delivered at the end of the ETV process can be used as evidence that the claims made about the innovation are both credible and scientifically sound. With proof of performance credibly assured, innovations can expect easier market access and/or a larger market share, and the technological risk is reduced for technology purchasers.

• Attract investment

• Increase your market share

• Differentiate from your competitors

Claims about the performance of innovative environmental technologies are verified by qualified third parties. EMEC is accredited to ISO 17020 and the EU ETV General Verification Protocol to perform verifications under the EU ETV Pilot Programme.

For more information about EMEC-ETV visit: Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)

EMEC is exhibiting at All-Energy 2015 at the SECC, Glasgow, on 6-7th May. Visit us on stand ORK12 in the Energy of Orkney pavilion in the Highlands & Islands area.

Attending All-Energy 2015

• Neil Kermode, Managing Director
• Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
• Matthew Finn, Senior Business Development Manager
• Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship & Marketing Manager
• Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing & Communication Officer
• Dave Wakefield, ETV Manager

If you’d like to set up a meeting please contact info@emec.org.uk. Otherwise, please pop past stand ORK12 in the Orkney pavilion in the Highlands & Islands area.

Speaking at All-Energy 2015

Day 2: Thursday 7th May

• Real sea testing: powering marine energy R&D: Neil is speaking in Wave & Tidal Session 5 at 1330 alongside Professor Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh, and Katie Grace of the University of Strathclyde.
• The Great Debate: A question of scale – BIG v small: Neil is chairing The Great Debate at 1530 which will see Professor Peter Fraenkel propose ‘the BIG solution’, and Cameron Johnston of tidal turbine developer Nautricity propose ‘the small solution’ alongside Gareth Davies of Aquatera. This session will take the form of a classic debate. You will be asked to vote on the way into the conference hall. Our two proposers will then put forward their position by means of presentations; our seconders will give short supporting speeches. We want you to come prepared with plenty of questions to fire at them to tease out interesting answers. The four participants will then be asked to put forward closing remarks and a second vote will be taken. Which way will it go? You need to be there to find out!

The full conference programme can be accessed online: All-Energy 2015 conference programme

Wave & Tidal Seminar Theatre

EMEC is hosting a lunchtime session beginning at 1200 within the Wave & Tidal Seminar Theatre (situated between the Orkney and HIE areas within the exhibition hall). This session will comprise a series of quick-fire 5 minute updates from EMEC and our technology developers:

• EMEC-ETV competition: John Griffiths, EMEC Technical/Compliance Director
• O&M software: Susannah Brown, Marine Renewables Business Strategist, JBA Consulting
• Integrated monitoring platform: Matthew Finn, EMEC Senior Business Development Manager
• Hydrogen for tidal power: Neil Kermode, EMEC Managing Director
• Aquamarine Power: Neil Davidson, Public Affairs Manager
• Alstom: Alex Alliston, Commercial Manager
• Bluewater: Joe Hulm, Senior Marker Developer
• Nautricity: Robbie Macdonald, Project Engineer
• OpenHydro: Garrett Connell, Development Projects Manager
• Scotrenewables Tidal Power: James Murray, Business Development Manager
• Sustainable Marine Energy: Christoph Harwood, Commercial Director
• Wello Oy: Aki Luukkainen, Chief Executive Officer

The full programme for the Quick Fire Seminars can be downloaded online: All-Energy 2015 conference programme

EMEC-ETV

Accredited to ISO 17020, EMEC became a Verification Body for Environmental Technology Verification (EMEC-ETV) in 2014. The ETV scheme helps innovative technologies reach the market by verifying the specific performance parameters of a given technology, and can help small and medium-sized businesses attract investment, increase market share and differentiate from competitors. EMEC can verify the performance of technologies which present an environmental benefit in the wave, tidal and wind energy sectors, as well as technologies that focus on water treatment & monitoring, and materials, waste & resources.

• Attract investment

• Increase market share

• Differentiate from your competitors

EMEC will be announcing some exciting news regarding EMEC-ETV at All-Energy so watch this space!

For further information on the conference visit: All-Energy 2015