Renewable UK Wave & Tidal 2017
EMEC is exhibiting at Renewable UK’s Wave & Tidal Conference on 23rd February 2017. The event will be held in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.
Attending RUK Wave & Tidal
- John Griffith, Non-Executive Director
- Neil Kermode, Managing Director
- Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
- Eileen Linklater, Client Relationship and Marketing Manager
- Lisa MacKenzie, Marketing and Communications Officer
If you would like to organise a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060
Exhibition
Our exhibition stand will include displays of some of the projects we are involved in, including:
- Laminaria’s wave energy converter model, being developed as part of the LAMWEC project.
- SME’s rock anchor model
- Whitford’s coating panel
- JBA interactive TV demonstrating their ForeCoast® Marine Mission Planner
- A electrolyser demonstration model
- SEA Drymate cable connector
- EMEC subsea cable section
- InSTREAM MicroPod turbulence model.
Programme
Session B2: Maximising the Power: Grid, Systems and Storage Challenges and Solutions
Neil Kermode: ‘Hydrogen from tidal energy: overcoming grid constraints’
Orkney has an abundance of renewably produced electricity however the current grid is already constrained, restricting the progress of new wind, tidal and wave energy projects. Therefore, innovative projects are being developed to use Orkney’s energy in different ways. EMEC has invested in an electrolyser to convert tidal power to hydrogen. The ‘Surf ‘n’ Turf’ project will build on this to incorporate wind energy as well, using a fuel cell to convert it back to electricity to power local ferries. Another project – BIG HIT – will use renewably generated hydrogen to power a fleet of electric vans and two hydrogen-powered boilers.
The full programme is available to view here: Renewable UK Wave & Tidal programme
