Blog: Orkney Renewable Energy Exhibition opens in Stromness
Did you know: Orkney generates more electricity on average than it consumes, with 1 in 12 households producing their own power? Orkney hosts more grid-connected wave and tidal energy devices than any other single site in the world? Orkney employs over 400 people locally in its renewable energy industry? Orkney plays a world-leading role in Read More »
Blog: GRE & AWTEC 2014, Japan
EMEC is exhibiting at the Grand Renewable Energy (GRE) International Conference & Exhibition 2014 in Tokyo, Japan, next week. The GRE Conference is being held jointly with the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC). Oliver Wragg (Commercial Director) and Allan Davidson (Director Asia) will be attending the conference. If you’d like to set Read More »
Press Release: New Orkney development site
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been awarded rights to new areas of seabed by the Crown Estate including a tidal stream project in the Stronsay Firth. EMEC already operates two wave test sites and two tidal test sites in Orkney, and is to begin consultation on how best to develop new marine energy Read More »
Press Release: EMEC to take on new development sites in Scotland
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in collaboration with local partners, has been awarded rights to areas of seabed in Harris, Islay and Orkney by The Crown Estate. The Crown Estate has awarded EMEC the rights to manage two seabed zones: one for the development of tidal stream, and the other for wave. EMEC, the Read More »
Guest blog: Dee Nunn (RUK) reflects on marine energy visit to Orkney
Dee Nunn, Wave and Tidal Development Manager for RenewableUK, reflects on her recent visit to see Orkney’s marine renewables sector in action: When John Griffiths, Technical Director of EMEC, invited me up to the test centre I jumped at the opportunity to see wave and tidal devices up close and to learn directly from the Read More »
Blog: Wave and tidal energy – why the wait?
Ever wondered why it’s taking so long for marine renewables to develop to commercialisation? It’s a question that we are asked and that we see throughout the media regularly, however relative to other industries it really isn’t taking very long at all. Our Managing Director, Neil Kermode, addresses this frequently asked question in Holyrood Renewables Read More »
Blog: Video and photos from Orkney Ocean Energy Day 2014
The EU Sustainable Energy Week 2014 (EUSEW) is taking place this week (23rd – 27th June 2014). Launched in 2006 as an initiative of the European Commission, the EUSEW has become a reference point for public authorities, energy agencies, private companies, NGOs and industry associations engaged in helping to meet the EU’s energy and climate Read More »
Blog: 2020 days to 2020 and counting
Today (Midsummer’s day 2014) is numerically interesting because it is now 2020 days until the year 2020; a year that has become burdened by targets and aspirations; a year that was set up as an important milestone along the journey to a sustainable energy future. Scotland’s main target is to be producing the equivalent of Read More »
Blog: Marine renewables features on BBC Alba
Our Managing Director, Neil Kermode, featured on BBC Alba last night in a Gaelic documentary on renewable energy. The programme was looking at the potential that marine renewables presents to island communities, and highlights the grid constraints as the major issue facing these communities in fulfilling this potential. If you missed it, the programme – Read More »
Press release: EMEC and Ocean Energy Europe join forces to bring Energy Day to Orkney
On 3 June 2014 the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) hosted the first EU Energy Day dedicated to ocean energy in partnership with Ocean Energy Europe, the trade association for ocean renewables in Europe. At the Orkney Ocean Energy Day, as part of the EU’s Sustainable Energy Week calendar of events, representatives from the European Read More »
