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Winter 2018 European Energy Innovation 49
MARINE ENERGY
potential are daily being overcome, Recent highlights include the record- project. This aims to demonstrate
thanks to the determination, patience breaking performance, at EMEC’s an advanced, full-scale device in
and resilience of tidal and wave Fall of Warness tidal test site, of real conditions with high levels of
energy developers. Orbital Marine Power’s (formerly reliability and survivability, while
Scotrenewables Tidal Power) developing a greater understanding
At the European Marine Energy SR2000 device. In a year of testing, of installation, operation and
Centre (EMEC) in Orkney – the world’s this floating tidal turbine generated decommissioning costs.
only fully accredited marine energy in excess of 3GWh of renewable
test centre - we’ve been privileged electricity and on occasions was We’ve also just welcomed Spanish
to witness much of that tangible supplying seven-per-cent of Orkney’s tidal energy developer Magallanes
progress over the past 15 years. weekly electricity – an outstanding Renovables back to Orkney, with
achievement. the company set to install its full
The developers who come to EMEC scale ATIR tidal turbine at the Fall
– many of them from our close The company is now preparing to of Warness. ATIR’s deployment is
European neighbours – are deploying start work on its next generation part of the Ocean_2G project, which
prototype devices that do exactly device, the Orbital O2 2MW, aims to test, validate and pre-certify
what they were designed to do – turn under the Floating Tidal Energy Magallanes’ second generation (2G)
seawater into electricity. Commercialisation (FloTEC) 2MW tidal platform.
Photo: ©Colin Keldie Neil Kermode, EMEC’s Managing Director
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