Progress for EquiMar Partners

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy visited the Pelamis Wave Power headquarters in Leith (July 16th) to announce an £8 million boost from the UK government for marine energy. The funding will help expand the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, where Pelamis achieved a world first by generating electricity for the national grid. (Pelamis and EMEC are both partners in the Equimar project)

Pelamis is now working on the next generation of its unique wave-power generators for Orkney next year. Mr Murphy said work at Pelamis, on the Forth estuary, will inspire advances in renewable technology. Meanwhile the Scotsman newspaper suggested the lion’s share of the marine development cash should have come to Scotland not Cornwall. See here......