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ORKNEY & THE PENTLAND FIRTH SpotLIGHT ON Sample Heading Sed vitae adipiscing leo. Curabitur velit nulla, dignissim sed nunc et, consectetur porta ipsum. LOREM IPSUM DOLOR Nam eu elit ante. Nullam purus tellus, rhoncus sed dui vel, hendrerit tincidunt magna. Nunc elit nisi, lobortis nec aliquet eu, porta eu tellus. Donec id rhoncus est, necCOMMUNICATION aliquet nunc. HUB FOR THE WAVE & TIDAL ENERGY INDUSTRY Company Details Underwater Acoustics INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT IRELAND & SCOTLAND PROJECTS SpotLIGHT ON... ORKNEY/PENTLAND FIRTH www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk PAGE 05 MARCH/APRIL 2014 | £7.50 EDItor’S WELCOME Communication is key Welcome to Wave & Tidal Energy SPOTLIGHT ON SCOTLAND AND Network the very first publication in IRELAND both printed and online magazine It is no surprise that we feature both MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE formats which is dedicated solely to Scotland and Ireland within two of our INTERACTIOn – QR CODES the industry and with your help will features within this launch edition. The As with our sister publication Wind Energy serve as a communication hub. areas involved have seen the future Network we have pink and green flashes possibilities and their respective governing indicating more information online. This publication is for the industry and will authorities have set ambitious but be led by the industry – we want to play achievable targets for renewable energy QR codes have been substituted in the our part in ensuring that this is the best and wave and tidal in particular. printed version which means that you can vehicle of communication for all involved in scan the code with your smart phone and the wave and tidal energy industry. ORKNEY AND THE PENTLAND it will direct you to the micropage of the FIRTH featured company or organisation held Your contributions will be vital to this The home of the The Highlands & Islands within our website, so that you can learn success so please do not hesitate to get in Enterprise who continually strive to focus much more in all sorts of formats. touch. on the needs of the renewable energy industry. One of the many highlights within These have already become very popular LEAD ARTicle – INDUSTRY this feature is the vast European Marine as they link to both the printed on online VIEWPOINT Energy Park. magazines in a very interactive way – a Martin McCall CEO at Aquamarine starts great marketing tool for our decision off our launch edition and the first of our SCOTLAND AND IRELAND making readership to find out about ‘Industry Viewpoint’ features. If you feel PROJECTS products and services following the reading you would like to have the opportunity to This features the breadth of projects which of an interesting article. contribute to a future viewpoint please feel are happening in both countries. free to offer your editorial which will be I look forward to working with you in the considered for future editions. FEATURES – geT INVOLVED weeks and months to come. As the magazine grows so will the individual features on all sorts of areas within the industry. These features will emanate from our discussions with leading experts during our visits to conferences and events, as well as our editorial team bringing up subject areas when looking at the industry as a whole. Please feel free to contact us if there is any subject area which you think may be of interest to our readership and we will do the rest – there is never any charge for Duncan McGilvray - Editor genuine editorial. Wave & Tidal Energy Network You will find our ‘Forthcoming Features’ tab on our website in the magazine section. www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk PAGE 01 WAVE & TIDAL ENERGY NETWORK CONTENTS CONTENTS 4 Industry Viewpoint 32 Catapult 6 Founding Partners information 34 Underwater Acoustics 8 Pelamis Interview 38 Seatricity 12 Orkney Spotlight 40 Alstom 20 Narec 42 Industry Overview – Royal HaskoningDVH 22 Ireland and Scotland projects 44 Industry Update 30 DP Energy HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ENTERPRISE GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD GREEN ENERGY PUBLISHING LTD T 01765 644224 The cover image was supplied by (NORTHERN) (SOUTHERN) W www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk the Highlands & Islands Enterprise FOUNDING PARTNERS The Oaks, Oakwood Park Business Centre, OrbisEnergy, Wilde Street, E [email protected] sponsors of our Spotlight on Without the help and support of our ‘Founding Partners’, with whom we have a very Bishop Thornton, Harrogate Lowestoft, Suffolk E [email protected] Orkney and the Pentland Firth. special relationship, we would not have been able to launch this first edition. If you are North Yorkshire HG3 3BF NR32 1XH interested in becoming a founding partner please have a look at the various pages within SCOTLAND AND IRELAND the magazine regarding the ‘Founding Partners’ and get in touch as there may still be PROJECTS FEATURE places available. Both countries would appear to have taken the lead in the industry regarding Duncan McGilvray Wave & Tidal Energy Network magazine is happy to accept unsolicited contributions for consideration. Editorial opinions expressed renewable energy and it should be no Editor in this magazine are not necessarily those of Green Energy Publishing Ltd and the company does not accept responsibility for advertising content. The publishers cannot accept any responsibility for omissions or errors. The contents of this magazine are fully surprise that we have focused on the Wave & Tidal Energy Network protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission. breadth of projects involved. PAGE 02 www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk PAGE 03 INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT EXPERIENCE This is a big mistake. We must embrace GOVERNMENT SUPPORT The learning from the past years has and share our failures - each failure is a Private sector investment alone cannot provided a much clearer picture of the learning opportunity. When speaking of his fund this industry at this stage and we are Industry viewpoint technology challenge. Experience has frustration in getting the incandescent light very fortunate that both UK and Scottish shown us that wave machines have to bulb to work reliably, it was Thomas Edison governments remain committed to the There are a number of companies which have been working in the industry for some time so we thought we should give be incredibly robust if they are to survive who said: “I have not failed, I have just sector. New thinking on how to fund the our readers the views of one of the leaders in the field – if you would like to get involved and give your views please do not and operate reliably in our energetic seas. found 1000 ways that won’t work.” We industry is required and this may include hesitate to get in touch. Subsystems and components designed must learn, we must design out the failure introducing industry-wide technology for the oil and gas sector sometimes just and we must get on with learning more. programmes as well as company-specific AQuamarine’S CEO MARTIN LONG TERM INVESTMENT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING do not do the job: cylinder modules fail, The worst thing we can do is waste investor grants. MCADAM EXPLAINS… At Aquamarine Power, we employ 50 In the early days of the industry we have accumulators corrode and non-return cash on solving problems already solved Aquamarine Power is just over nine years people in high quality, permanent skilled been over-optimistic – this optimism was valves fall apart. Aquamarine Power has by others. Investors should cherish those EXCITING TIMES old and I joined the company almost six posts in our office in Edinburgh, our fuelled by a lack of information. Now, as an shown leadership by discussing openly companies that are willing and open to These are exciting times for the wave years ago. When we started out on this research facility at Queen’s University industry, we are more mature. Today we what has not worked on Oyster. co-operation and collaboration. energy sector. Other countries, notably journey I guess we all believed that we Belfast and our operations base in Orkney. have much more real data on the ocean Ireland and Chile, are learning from the would be there by now! Our business has raised more than £60 environment, the limitations of some of COMMUNICATING IDEAS AND ‘Scottish model’ to put in place their own million private investment, leveraged by the technologies available to us, the cost EMBRACING/SHARING FAILURES policies in support of wave energy. New The initial exuberance and excitement around £12 million of public support and and performance of machines, a better Up to now industry participants have markets, like new technologies, take years at creating a new technology to extract boasts SSE and international power firm understanding of grid and consenting closely guarded their intellectual property to develop - and as long as we stay the electricity from ocean waves then subsided. ABB as major shareholders. timelines and a realistic view of the finance and have hidden their failures for course in the UK, we can look forward to It was replaced by a reality that this required. This means all sides of the debate fear of being ridiculed or for fear of substantial global markets for our maturing challenge is bigger, more difficult, more PROJECT REALITIES – the public sector, industrial investors and frightening investors. wave technologies in the years ahead. expensive and will take longer than we We have consented the world’s first ever technology developers – have a much more originally thought. wave farm, in Lewis, with the potential to grounded view of how our industry will Martin McAdam generate hundreds of local jobs and have develop and grow. CEO PREDICTIONS installed and operated two full scale Oyster Aquamarine Power At that time we as a company and as an machines at the European Marine Energy industry, were confidently predicting the Centre in Orkney.
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