News this week

EMEC are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for the prestigious Offshore Achievement Awards in the Offshore Renewables category. The Offshore Renewables Award recognises technical excellence in an offshore marine renewables project, and is judged on outstanding design, significant innovation, and unusual complexity and scale. The awards ceremony will be held in March so watch this space.

Atlantis Resources Corporation has announced that it will continue the testing for the AR1000 tidal turbine at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec). Upon completion, the turbine is scheduled to return to EMEC for further testing. For the full press release, click here.

Jenny Norris, Research Director, was in Newcastle yesterday attending an Advisory Group meeting on the Marine Renewable Energy Knowledge Exchange Programme, run by the National Environmental Research Council (NERC). The programme aims to stimulate the development of stronger partnerships between the academic, public and private sectors.

Welcome to the team

EMEC would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member to the EMEC team. John Skuse began working with us on Monday taking up the post of Maintenance Technician for the Eday Substation. His responsibilities include looking after the building and laydown area facilities, developer activities, maintenance, troubleshooting and assisting with project work.

Photo: Watching the sunrise from EMEC office window this morning