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News this week

The Scottish Government has announced plans to launch a £103 million renewable energy fund to support renewable energy development in Scotland. The Renewable Energy Investment Fund will support pre-commercial projects including wave and tidal demonstration arrays. The fund will also aim to leverage additional private investment for the sector. This is a very welcome announcement demonstrating the government’s continued commitment to the marine energy industry.

Neil and Eileen attended the Renewable UK Wave and Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Edinburgh last week. Fergus Ewing, the Scottish Government’s Energy Minister, provided the keynote speech in which he announced that Vattenfall has signed up to a berth at EMEC. There was a particular focus on the need for durability and reliability in technology throughout some excellent presentations and as always, it was a great opportunity to catch up with suppliers and customers.

The RUK ‘Marine Energy in the UK: State of the Industry Report 2012’ was launched at the event, which demonstrates the vast progress which is being made in the industry, but highlights continued investment and government support as vital to advance smoothly to commercialisation.

Following Vattenfall’s announcement last week, and the heightened demand for EMEC’s facilities, EMEC is now looking to expand its wave and tidal test facilities. For further details, click here.

After the RUK conference, Eileen travelled to Aberdeen for the prestigious Offshore Achievement Awards for which we were shortlisted in the new Offshore Renewables category. This was the first year in their 26 year history that offshore renewables companies were eligible to apply for the awards. EMEC were delighted to be nominated, but were pipped to the post by our new client Vattenfall who scooped the award for their work on the Thanet offshore wind farm. Congratulations to them and all the nominees and winners.

Closer to home, HIE announced this week that the six new industrial units at Hatston are now complete. The units have been developed to support the renewable energy sector in Orkney, providing workshop, storage and office facilities to tidal energy developers using EMEC’s tidal test site in Eday. HIE’s senior management team were in Orkney to witness the plethora of renewables activity taking place here, meeting with EMEC and Marine Services, and visiting the new units, and the Ness boat yard where Seatricity are currently manufacturing their wave energy devices.

Coming up:
Neil and Eileen will be attending the Scottish Renewable Annual Conference and Exhibition next week. Eileen is speaking in the ‘Innovation – Technological Viability and Optimisation’ plenary on the 27th March.

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