Press release: Horizon2020 grant €10m to Scotrenewables FloTEC project
The European Commission’s largest research and innovation programme, Horizon2020, has awarded a grant of €10 million (£7.75m) to advance the commercialisation of Scotrenewables’ floating tidal energy technology. The Floating Tidal Energy Commercialisation (FloTEC) project will demonstrate the potential for floating tidal systems to provide low-cost, high-value energy to the European grid mix. Scotland’s Energy Minister, Read More »
Press release: ORE Catapult and EMEC ‘TAP’ into marine technology development journey
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and EMEC launch Technology Assessment Process (TAP) to de-risk marine energy technology development EMEC are delighted to be collaborating with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult on the Technology Assessment Process (TAP), launched at the International Conference for Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Edinburgh today. TAP has been designed to support wave and tidal energy technology Read More »
Press release: Sustainable Marine Energy buys 16 turbines from SCHOTTEL Hydro
Over the next two years SCHOTTEL HYDRO will deliver 16 SCHOTTEL Instream Turbines (SIT) with a capacity of 62 kW each to Sustainable Marine Energy (SME). The British company has signed a long term contract with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and will build a platform array in Scotland, off the Orkney Islands. Following Read More »
Press release: LAMWEC project to prove Laminaria WEC survivability
Flemish wave energy developer Laminaria has joined forces with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Innosea, Ghent University, and TTI Testing to support the development of their novel wave energy converter (WEC). Funded under the OCEANERA-NET First Joint Call 2014, the LAMWEC project seeks to develop and test a 100kW Laminaria WEC, progressing from TRL Read More »
Press release: Reliability in a Sea of Risk: developing a reliability testing culture for ocean energy
Three of the leading European research and testing sites embark on development of a methodology to improve reliability in marine energy converters Scotland’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is working with the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden to improve reliability testing, with the aim of building robustness Read More »
