Press release: Aquantis signs up to EMEC tidal demo
California-based tidal energy developer Aquantis, Inc has signed up to test its Tidal Power Tug at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. Aquantis has signed a berth agreement for a six-month testing programme in 2023 at EMEC’s Shapinsay Sound scale test site. Aquantis’ Tidal Power Tug is a second generation floating tidal Read More »
Press release: Caron Oag wins Professional Service Award
Caron Oag, EMEC’s Senior Marketing Officer for Hydrogen, has won the Professional Service Award at the Scottish Renewables’ Young Professionals Green Energy Awards 2022. The Young Professionals Green Energy Awards celebrate individuals who will be driving the renewable energy projects of the future. This year, two of the EMEC team were shortlisted: Caron for Read More »
COVID-19: EMEC work, travel and visitor policies
First published: 13 March 2020 Last updated: 28 April 2022 We review and update this notice regularly as we reassess the situation and adhere to current government guidelines. Due to the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, EMEC has put the following measures in place to limit exposure of our team, community and stakeholders to the virus. Read More »
Press release: AWS Waveswing gets shakedown at EMEC
Initial testing and shakedown of Waveswing completed as AWS offshore scientific test programme progresses Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy has commenced sea trials at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) as part of its scientific testing programme for its Waveswing wave energy converter. The initial shakedown testing at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site in Orkney involved Read More »
Press release: H2GO Power to trial AI hydrogen optimisation system at EMEC
Funding has been awarded to trial real-time usage of artificial intelligence (AI) software to optimise hydrogen production and storage at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. The HyAI 2.0 project aims to trial the use of an AI platform called HyAI by integrating the system into EMEC’s hydrogen plant on the island of Read More »
