Second award for EMEC

As well as picking up the award for Best Renewable Energy (Offshore) at the Energy North Awards on Friday, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been awarded the ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) President’s Award for Energy Infrastructure.

This new award recognises excellence in a chosen theme, which this year ICE President Richard Coackley set as the generation, storage and delivery of energy.

The centre was commended for its unrivalled test site facilities based in Orkney, which enable 14 full-scale marine energy technologies to test simultaneously in some of the harshest wave and tidal conditions, as well as providing test sites situated in less challenging real sea conditions for smaller scale device testing.