Blog: EMEC to feature on BBC Radio 4 – The World Tonight – at 2200
“I think the story of EMEC itself is fascinating, and one which too few people in Britain know about – that the world’s biggest testing centre for wave and tidal power is up in Orkney.” Paul Moss, Reporter for BBC Radio 4 was in Orkney last week visiting EMEC and various wave and tidal energy Read More »
Blog: SR Conference, 16 & 17 Sept
The annual Scottish Renewables Marine Conference, Exhibition and Dinner is taking place next week on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th September 2013 at Eden Court in Inverness. Neil, Kermode, Eileen Linklater and Max Carcas will be attending so if you would like to meet up please contact us on 01856 852060 or email info@emec.org.uk. Key sessions not to miss: Read More »
Blog: The reach of the media
Neil Kermode’s thoughts on EMEC’s local and international appeal: On Monday last week Jenny Hill of the BBC visited EMEC and we shot an interview in the Operations Room in the Old Academy office. The piece, for BBC Breakfast, was broadcast on Thursday 5th September at 06:19 GMT and within 10 minutes we had received comment Read More »
Blog: EMEC to feature on BBC Breakfast News, Thurs 5th Sept
Jenny Hill, reporter for BBC Breakfast, was in the county earlier this week reporting on the marine renewables industry which is evolving in Orkney. As well as interviewing Neil Kermode, EMEC’s managing director, she visited the Billia Croo test site to speak to Bryan Rendall of Bryan J Rendall Electrical Ltd who has seen his Read More »
Blog: Neil Kermode – 10 Years of Wave and Tide
Neil Kermode is speaking at the Orkney International Science Festival (OISF) this week, alongside representatives of wave and tidal developers. Hosted by Orkney Renewable Energy Forum, “10 Years of Wave and Tide” will celebrate the developments that have taken place throughout Orkney over the last decade, and look ahead to the challenges and opportunities that Read More »
Blog: reNews report on Orkney’s marine energy boom
EMEC hosted a visit last month from Seb Kennedy, deputy editor of leading renewables newsletter reNews, to report on the current boom of wave and tidal testing activity in Orkney. Seb reflects on his visit below: “The most impressive known display of cutting-edge marine renewables engineering anywhere in the world” I first visited Orkney in Read More »
Blog: Busy week at Fall of Warness
A lot of progress has been made since we reported on the unprecedented number of tidal energy devices using the newly extended Hatston pier at the beginning of August (read the blog post here). The combination of good neaps and good weather windows has enabled a flurry of activity at the Fall of Warness Read More »
Blog: WWF commend Orkney’s steps towards a sustainable future
We’ve just come across this interesting article – Orkney brown crabs could lead us all to clean, green marine energy – published on Herald Scotland. In it, Lang Banks, Director of WWF Scotland, expresses his admiration for two “ground-breaking initiatives” taking place here in Orkney. “I think it is pretty amazing to think that a Read More »
Blog: Billia Croo bustling with activity
As we celebrate our 10th birthday here at EMEC there is another important anniversary worth noting. That is the anniversary of the first electricity to be fed into the grid at the EMEC wave test site; a momentous occasion that also marked the first generation into an onshore grid network from an Read More »
Blog: Max Carcas clarifies Pentland Firth power potential
Last month the Royal Society issued a report called “The available power from tidal stream turbines in the Pentland Firth”. It was claimed that this paper was the first to make a robust estimate of the maximum power that could be generated from the Pentland Firth after taking into account the effect multiple arrays of Read More »
