Highlights of 2014 at EMEC

December 25, 2014

Established in 2003, The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd is the centre that provides developers of both wave and tidal energy converters with purpose-built, accredited open-sea testing facilities.

Tidal Energy Today Staff brings you some of the highlights of the activities in 2014 at EMEC test site:

Aquamarine Power successfully replaced the cylinder module on their Oyster 800 wave machine during a comprehensive summer refit
The two Pelamis P2 machines collectively reached a milestone 10,000 hours of grid connected operations
Wello successfully completed the third test season of the Penguin wave energy converter
Alstom’s 1MW tidal turbine generated over 1GWh of electricity, in actual operating conditions, to the Scottish grid
Andritz Hydro Hammerfest received an order from MeyGen Ltd to supply three 1.5MW tidal turbines to the planned tidal array in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth
OpenHydro installed their 7th generation OpenCentre turbine at their Fall of Warness test rig
Scotrenewables’ commenced fabrication of the superstructure for the SR2000 2MW turbine, which will be tested at EMEC in 2015
Magallanes installed their 1:10 scale ‘ATIR’ prototype at EMEC’s Shapinsay Sound test site in November
North Sea Systems completed trials of their CableFish® survey system for touchdown monitoring and cable route survey at EMEC