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10 Years of Wave and Tide

8 years ago

by Neil Kermode

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It is easy to become blasé about the fact that the technology to harvest wave and tidal energy is...

Neil Kermode

Neil Kermode, who is managing director of EMEC and chair of Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF), is a civil engineer with a longstanding interest in energy. He has worked in municipal engineering and with the Environment Agency, and also with the developer of a tidal turbine in the Straits of Messina off Sicily. He first came to Orkney on a holiday as a scuba diver to dive the wrecks of Scapa Flow and came up with an idea to use the Churchill Barriers as a major source of renewable energy if turbines could be built into the causeways. Today EMEC is attracting worldwide interest for its ability to test wave and tidal power systems. “It is a privilege to be working at the heart of this burgeoning industry and to lead the team that helps break new (sustainable) ground on a daily basis,” he says