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The National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) has invested over £150 million from UK government, European Regional Development Funding and private sector sources over the last ten years in establishing world-leading open-access research and test facilities for the offshore renewable energy industry – wind, wave and tidal. Although perhaps best known for its work with the…

Atlantis Resources Corp., a London- based ocean-turbine maker, won $5 million from the Canadian government to build and install a machine at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy test site in the Bay of Fundy. Atlantis will work with Lockheed Martin Corp. and Irving Shipbuilding Inc. to build, install and monitor the 1-megawatt turbine,…

The indication of interest from the crown estate will be a major fillip to the marine energy sector, which suffered cuts in 2011 The crown estate owns the seabed around the UK and stands to benefit to a great extent from the expansion of marine power. Photograph: Handout/PA The UK’s fledgling wave and tidal power…

The Crown Estate, owner of the U.K. seabed, plans to offer about 20 million pounds ($32 million) of funding for two wave or tidal power projects to try to spur on an industry nearing its first commercial operations. The estate will invest in building the projects with their developers using grants from the government, it…

The UK is underestimating the amount of electricity that could be generated from tidal sources, new research says. The analysis says that estuary barrages and tidal streams could provide more than 20% of the nation’s demand for electricity. Despite high costs, experts say tidal power is more reliable than wind. The predictable nature of tides…

 World-class onshore facilities developed by Narec engineers provide a catalyst for the global scale-up of offshore wind and tidal energy technologies. The Duke of York visited the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) later today, to open two new facilities for the development of offshore renewable energy technologies. The new offshore wind turbine blade and tidal…

Atlantis Resources has completed the first ever tidal turbine testing programme at the National Renewable Energy Centre’s (Narec) 3MW capacity, onshore, turbine drive train testing facility. In two weeks of full testing on its AR1000 turbine, the international marine energy developer has secured performance data equivalent to four months of tidal exchanges. Atlantis’ engineers ran…

Press Notice 2012/091 30 July 2012 The Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters in the North of Scotland will today confirm their place on the global marine energy map with the launch of the area as a Marine Energy Park. Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker will welcome the launch of the marine park during a…

Atlantis Resources Corporation is moving its AR1000 tidal turbine to continue its testing programme at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) in Blyth, UK. The 1 MW AR1000 tidal turbine nacelle was retrieved from its test berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney in late November, following open ocean testing. It will…

The winds and stormy seas that dominate the 70 islands that make up the Orkneys has shaped the life of islanders as well as the island itself – most evident from the lack of trees or crops able to grow there. Today it’s no different; the weather and the climate caused by its open exposure…