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Marine Renewable Energy

Test Facilities

EMEC, Orkney

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is located in Orkney. They have 2 test sites, a wave site located outside Stromness on the mainland and a tidal test site located off the island of Eday. As the first centre of its kind to be created anywhere in the world, their role is to support the development of wave and tidal energy devices and to aid the evolution of the technology from the prototype stage into the commercial market place.

www.emec.org.uk

NaREC, Northumberland

NaREC has developed a number of facilities for the testing of smaller prototype devices. Dry docks have been converted for both wave and tidal technologies.

www.narec.co.uk

QinetiQ, Gosport

QinetiQ's Ocean Basin (122 x 61 x 5.5m) and Towing Tank (270 x 12 x 5.5m) are being used for testing full scale wave and tidal energy devices in controlled conditions. They both have wave makers, and are on the south coast near Portsmouth.

www.qinetiq.com/hydrodynamics

Wave Hub, Cornwall

The Wave Hub is a consented, grid connected 20MW demonstration site for arrays of wave energy devices located off the north coast in Cornwall. Completed in 2010, the project holds a 25 year lease of 8 sq km of sea bed and has been designed for 4 x 5MW arrays of different devices. The system can readily be upgraded to generate 50MW in future.

www.wavehub.co.uk

Wavegen

Wavegen's advanced tank testing facility is suited to R&D in areas such as coastal fixed and offshore and coastal waters as well as marine renewable energy systems.

The tank is complemented by numerical modelling and the waverider buoy, allowing site specific testing.

For further information about hiring the tank contact Wavegen on 01463 238094.