SELKIE are pleased to announce, we will be holding our final Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) Supply Chain Networking event at the end of February 2023, in Anglesey, (further details above).The last supply chain event was held in Pembrokeshire 2022, which was well received and attended...
Researchers at Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) and University College Cork (UCC) have deployed an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to obtain ocean current data from a location of interest in the Irish Sea. This survey is part of a collaboration between Selkie Work Package...
Last week, the SELKIE project were delighted to have been involved in the Destination Renewables Session at Pembrokeshire College, ‘An Introduction to Marine Renewable Energy and Floating Offshore Wind’. Destination Renewables is a new pioneering programme preparing students for the future renewables’ jobs market.To raise...
EU Space Week 2022 is being held this week (3 – 6 October) in Prague. The European Space Week, the go-to event for Europe’s space community. From policymakers to industry, start-ups, entrepreneurs, public authorities, investors and users, it is the place to be for anyone...
https://youtu.be/jaN9Rf23dHsThe Selkie open access Operation & Maintenance (O&M) decision-support tool has been developed to access a wide range of different wave and tidal technologies. The O&M tool allows users to simulate operations considering uncertain factors such as weather window time and failures and analyse their...
https://youtu.be/TM77sESwB7wThe video above provides a brief overview of some of the findings of workpackage 9. The full results are being written into a research paper which will be made available once published. The overall objective of workpackage 9 is to ensure the sustainability of the Selkie...
The Selkie Project, funded through the European regional Development fund, Ireland & Wales Cooperation Programme, are delighted to have had their first tidal energy technology developer, Tidal Flyer, complete a funded week’s tank testing at LiR, National Ocean Test facility (NOTF), Ireland’s primary facility for...
If you are a newcomer to the SELKIE project you might have gleaned from our website that the project has been working towards delivering a series of open-source tools to catalyse the development to commercialisation of marine energy devices, with a focus towards tidal and...
Previous Next Last Week, The Selkie Project held its third Annual General Meeting. Workpackage leads from both Irish and Welsh partners assembled at the MaREI Centre, The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College...
Selkie were enthralled to learn that Orbital Marine Power, a Selkie network member and developer of the world's most powerful tidal turbine, have used the Selkie open-source GAD-CFD tool to inform the understanding of the tidal flow and potential wake interactions as part of their...
