Aquamarine Power founder wins medal

Aquamarine Power founder Allan Thomson has been awarded the Saltire Prize Medal for his outstanding contribution to the ocean energy industry at a ceremony in Edinburgh this week.

Allan founded Aquamarine Power in 2005 with the goal of commercialising Oyster wave energy technology. The company has now successfully installed and operated two full-scale Oyster machines at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.

Prior to this Allan founded Wavegen – the world’s first wave energy company to successfully develop a grid-connected wave power device, the LIMPET, which was installed on Islay in 2000.

The Saltire Prize Medal – presented under the auspices of Scotland’s £10 million Saltire Prize Challenge – aims to recognise outstanding contributions by individuals and groups to the development of wave and/or tidal power generation.