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The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd is a UKAS accredited test and research centre focusing on wave and tidal power development based in the Orkney Islands, UK. The Centre provides developers with the opportunity to test full-scale grid-connected prototype devices in unrivalled wave and tidal conditions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=European Marine Energy Centre )〕 The operations are spread over five sites: * Billia Croo wave energy test site, Mainland (wave power) * Fall of Warness tidal energy test site, off the island of Eday (tidal power) * Scale wave test site at Scapa Flow, off St Mary’s Bay * Scale tidal test site at Shapinsay Sound, off Head of Holland * Stromness (office and data facilities) EMEC was established by a grouping of public sector organisations following a recommendation by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in 2001. The centre offers, apart from access to water with high wave and tidal energy potential, various kinds of support regarding regulatory issues, grid connection and meteorological monitoring as well as local research and engineering support. ==Wave power== EMEC’s wave test facility is placed on the western edge of the Orkney mainland, in an area with one of the highest wave energy potentials in Europe. The exposed North Sea location means the island group is subjected to the powerful dynamic forces of the North Atlantic Ocean. Construction of the wave test facility was completed in October 2003, and operational activities commenced shortly thereafter. The centre's facilities consist of five test berths situated along the 50m water depth contour off Billia Croo, Stromness on the Orkney mainland (some 2 km offshore) and two shallow water berths situated close to the substation. The following have been installed: *Pelamis Wave Power (PWP) installed its prototype Pelamis 750 device on site for full-scale testing in August 2004. This wave energy conversion machine was the first in the world to generate electricity into a grid system from offshore wave energy. To date PWP has continued to undertake various tests as part of its ongoing development programme. *Scottish Power and Pelamis Wave Power are working in co-operation and are testing a second-generation Pelamis P-2 devices in conjunction with a second P2 device, previously owned by E.on from 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pressreleases.eon-uk.com/blogs/eonukpressreleases/archive/2010/11/02/1636.aspx )〕 but now transferred to Pelamis Wave Power in 2013. *AW-Energy from Finland undertook stand-alone mechanical testing in 2005 in the shallower waters at the test site.〔''Independent on Sunday (London)'' May 29, 2005, Sunday, Tim Webb, "Sandals and beards are banished in a quest to find 20,000 volts under the sea. Tim Webb travels to the Orkneys to discover a source of clean power." First Edition; BUSINESS; Pg. 15〕 *Aquamarine Power Ltd installed its Oyster wave power device on the seabed in August 2009 and generated electricity for the first time in November of the same year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aquamarinepower.com/technologies/oyster-1 )〕 Aquamarine installed its Oyster 2 800 kW wave energy converter in the summer of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aquamarinepower.com/technology/how-oyster-wave-power-works/ )〕 *Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) was scheduled to deploy its PowerBuoy in 2009 but instead decided to conduct sea trials in the Moray Firth in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/scotland.html )〕 *Wello, a Finish-based company, is currently testing its Penguin wave energy converter at the EMEC site throughout 2012/2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.orkneymarinerenewables.com/news.asp?newsid=58 )〕 * Seatricity, an Antigua-based company, has taken the other near shore berth. It will adopt a similar method to Aquamarine Power of using its device to pump water ashore to a standard hydro-electric power take-off system. it has already been involved in testing a number of its buoy units at the test site and is expected to deploy a full scale array in 2014. Funding from The Scottish Government to support the installation of a new grid-connected testing berth was announced in February 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emec.org.uk/press-release-scottish-government-invest-4-1m-in-emec/#loaded )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「European Marine Energy Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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