News this week

Planned work at our wave site was put on hold this week due to the lack of weather windows, with vessels standing by in Stromness.

Scottish Natural Heritage held a team meeting at EMEC this week for staff from all over Scotland involved in renewables. Jenny Norris, EMEC’s Research and Consents Manager, and Research Assistant Matthew Finn took the group to visit Billia Croo and see the site activity.

A student group from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy visited EMEC this week, and Eileen Linklater, Client and Marketing Manager gave a talk to a group of Art students from Edinburgh and Denmark in Orkney on a field trip.

Over the last few days a French camera crew have also been in and around Stromness, filming for a Documentary on marine renewables in Scotland for the long-running France 3 series “Thallassa” (Greek for ‘sea’). Various members of staff at EMEC have been shadowed and interviewed, and the crew visited the wave site with Aquamarine, and the tidal site with OpenHydro. Pictured are Antoine Mora and colleagues with Sue Barr, OpenHydro and Eileen Linklater, EMEC