EMEC streamline wave energy consenting at Billia Croo
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been awarded a site-wide section 36 consent at its grid-connected Billia Croo wave test site off the west coast of Orkney, Scotland. Subjected to the powerful forces of the North Atlantic Ocean, Billia Croo has some of the highest wave energy potentials in Europe with an average significant Read More »
Royal visit marks bid to develop world’s largest tidal turbine blades
A project aiming to maximise tidal energy generation has been launched in the presence of Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, at the University of Edinburgh’s FastBlade facility. The Princess Royal, who is also Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, visited on Tuesday 17 January to meet colleagues from the testing facility and partners of Read More »
Blog: EMEC 2022 review
Energy moved to centre stage in 2022, not because of climate change, but because of the war in Ukraine. The huge rise in fossil fuel prices has fuelled inflation and is leading to widespread hardship. Thank goodness for renewables as the financial impact of the war would have been even greater had we not been Read More »
EMEC search for 2023 Earthshot champions
The search is on for The Earthshot Prize 2023 The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is continuing its role as an Official Nominator for the second year running. EMEC joined The Earthshot Prize as an Official Nominator in 2022, following the Prince and Princess of Wales, then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visiting EMEC to Read More »
Press release: EMEC supplies hydrogen to Rolls-Royce jet engine ground test
Green hydrogen produced at EMEC (European Marine Energy Centre)’s hydrogen production and tidal test facility has been used to fuel the ground test of a Rolls-Royce jet engine. The engine test was progressed through a partnership between Rolls-Royce and easyJet who, earlier this year, committed to working together on a hydrogen technology demonstrator programme. Today, Read More »
Press release: EuropeWave reserves berths at BiMEP and EMEC
EuropeWave has reserved berths at the open-water test sites of the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country, Spain, and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. The final phase (Phase 3) of the EuropeWave programme will see three prototype wave energy converter systems deployed in the Spring of 2025 for Read More »
Press release: AWS share initial results from testing at EMEC
Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy has released initial results from the current phase of sea trials of its wave energy device at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. During the scientific testing programme at EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site, the Waveswing wave energy converter captured average power over 10 kW and peaks of 80 Read More »
Press release: New report highlights promising tidal energy cost reduction pathway
Tidal stream energy could plummet below £80 per MWh by 2035 if current opportunity is realised, a new industry-leading report has predicted. The ‘Cost Reduction Pathway of Tidal Stream Energy in the UK and France’ report, produced by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult as part of the Interreg FCE funded TIGER project, documents the Read More »
Press Release: Ambitious wave energy project sets course for EMEC demo
A €19.6 million partnership project aiming to be the stepping stone towards large scale wave energy commercialisation, will be launched this week at the International Conference on Ocean Energy in San Sebastian, Spain. WEDUSEA is a pioneering collaboration between 14 partners, spanning industry and academia from across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain. It Read More »
Press release: EMEC concludes concept design on 100 MW floating wind test site
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), based in Orkney, Scotland, has concluded concept design for a new 100 MW floating offshore wind test and demonstration site. As the world’s leading, and only accredited, ocean energy test facility EMEC is aiming to secure a lease for a site ~20 km west of Orkney, further out to Read More »
