Orkney company signs agreement in Singapore

An international collaboration agreement has been signed between the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) based in Orkney, and the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), Singapore, to support further development of the marine renewable energy industry in south-east Asia.

EMEC – the world’s first and leading facility for wave and tidal energy converters – will advise the university on the set up of scale test facilities in Singapore; offering a different climate and sea conditions to EMEC’s own scale test sites in Orkney.

A memorandum of understanding was signed in Singapore, by Stuart Baird, EMEC’s operations director, and Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar, executive director of ERI@N, after Mr Baird spoke at the Asia Future Energy Forum, part of Singapore International Energy Week.

Scottish Government’s Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Fergus Ewing has commended the agreement.

This is the fifth partnership EMEC have made in Asia, having signed similar agreements with the Ocean Energy Association of Japan, Ocean University of China, Incheon Metropolitan City in South Korea and National Taiwan Ocean University.

EMEC has also formed strategic alliances with The Fundy Ocean Energy Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Centre in Oregon, USA