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The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is a Scottish Government-backed research facility based in Stromness
Stromness

Stromness /'str?mn?s/ is the second-largest town in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, and is located in the south-west of the Mainland, Orkney of Orkney....
, Orkney that has installed a wave power
Wave power

Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful mechanical work ? for example for electricity generation, desalination, or the pumping of water ....
 testing system at Billia Croo on the Orkney mainland and a tidal power
Tidal power

Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful forms of power....
 testing station on the nearby island of Eday
Eday

Eday is one of the Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scotland in the United Kingdom. Eday is located in the North Isles of Orkney, and is about north of the main island of The Mainland, Orkney....
. At the official opening of the Eday project the site was described as "the first of its kind in the world set up to provide developers of wave and tidal energy devices with a purpose-built performance testing facility."

Wave Power
The wave site at Billa Croo consists of four berths located about 2km from shore and in a water depth of around 50m.

Pelamis Wave Power became the first developer to install a device at EMEC in August 2004 .






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The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is a Scottish Government-backed research facility based in Stromness
Stromness

Stromness /'str?mn?s/ is the second-largest town in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, and is located in the south-west of the Mainland, Orkney of Orkney....
, Orkney that has installed a wave power
Wave power

Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful mechanical work ? for example for electricity generation, desalination, or the pumping of water ....
 testing system at Billia Croo on the Orkney mainland and a tidal power
Tidal power

Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful forms of power....
 testing station on the nearby island of Eday
Eday

Eday is one of the Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scotland in the United Kingdom. Eday is located in the North Isles of Orkney, and is about north of the main island of The Mainland, Orkney....
. At the official opening of the Eday project the site was described as "the first of its kind in the world set up to provide developers of wave and tidal energy devices with a purpose-built performance testing facility."

Wave Power


The wave site at Billa Croo consists of four berths located about 2km from shore and in a water depth of around 50m.

Pelamis Wave Power became the first developer to install a device at EMEC in August 2004 . Their Pelamis
Pelamis

Pelamis can refer to:* Pelamis platurus, a species of sea snake* Pelamis wave energy converter...
 P750 wave energy device was the first in the world to generate electricity into the grid system from offshore wave energy.

Funding for the UK's first wave farm
Wave farm

A wave farm or wave power farm is a collection of machines in the same location and used for the generation of wave power electricity....
 was announced by the Scottish Executive
Scottish Executive

The Scottish Government is the Executive arm of the Government of Scotland. It was established in 1999 as the Scottish Executive, from the extant Scottish Office, and Scottish Executive remains its legal name under section 44 of the Scotland Act 1998....
 on February 22 2007. It will be the world's largest, with a capacity of 3 MW generated by four Pelamis wave energy converter machines at a cost of over £4 million. The funding is part of a new £13 million funding package for marine power projects in Scotland that will also support developments to Aquamarine's Oyster and Ocean Power Technology's PowerBuoy wave systems, AWS Ocean Energy's sub-sea wave devices, ScotRenewables' 1.2 MW floating rotor device, Cleantechcom's tidal surge plans for the Churchill barriers between various Orkney islands, the Open Hydro tidal ring turbines, and further developments to the Wavegen
Wavegen

Wavegen is a Wave power company based in Inverness, Scotland. It was formed in 1990 by Professor Alan Wells and bought in May 2005 by Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation, a joint company of Voith and Siemens....
 system proposed for Lewis
Lewis

Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The total area of Lewis is ....
 as well as a further £2.5 million for EMEC itself.

Tidal Power

The tidal site is at the Fall of Warness to the west of the Island of Eday in an area in which the tide flows reach 4m/sec (7.8 knots) at springs. There are four test berths at depths ranging from 25 to 50m.

The first developer to use the site is the Irish company OpenHydro, which installed a 250KW unit at the end of 2006. It provided power to the grid on May 26, 2008, the first tidal stream generator to do so. This is part of their programme to develop an array of 1MB turbines in Alderney
Alderney

Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands and a British Crown dependency. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is long and wide....
 in the Channel Islands
Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, off the France coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey....
 in 2009. Lunar Energy have announced their intention to install a 1MW version of their RTT technology.

See also

  • Renewable energy in Scotland
    Renewable energy in Scotland

    The production of renewable energy in Scotland is an issue that has come to the fore in technical, economic, and political terms during the opening years of the 21st century....
  • Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association
    Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association

    The Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association is a New Zealand organisation established in 2006 to promote renewable energy from marine sources....
     in New Zealand


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