The second Selkie Project newsletter was shared last week with our mailing list. This edition included updates from our Selkie Tool Series BLOG on Drone studies to measure surface currents at tidal stream energy sites, our Selkie innovation survey, a Spotlight on Selkie Network members...
The placement scheme for engineering disciplines at Swansea University is a year in industry embedded in the students’ curriculum. They undertake their placement in the penultimate year of their studies, which brings near-graduate-level recruits to their host companies. The placement scheme is entirely hosted by the...
The overall objective of work-package 9 is to ensure the sustainability of the Selkie aims beyond the project – the acceleration to commercialization of the opportunities in Ireland and Wales. To achieve this objective a detailed survey has been designed to obtain firm level data...
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is usually used to understand the flow around cars, aircraft and buildings. In Selkie, one of the project tools uses CFD to predict the energy captured by an array of tidal turbines and the wake behind each one. The aim is to...
Limerick Wave Ltd. is a wave energy research company that is twelve years old. Limerick Wave have concentrated on Power Take Of (PTO) systems. Limerick Wave’s mission is to turn the mechanical power of the waves into electrical power for general consumption. Limerick Wave Ltd. has...
Intertek Energy & Water (formerly Metoc) is an internationally-recognised consultancy founded in the 1980s providing specialist technical services such as highly-valued modelling solutions in the marine, coastal and river environments. As a member of the Intertek Group, our core team of around 50 experts, based...
To properly understand if a tidal stream site is suitable to generate tidal energy two things are needed: how the currents change from day to day and variation across the site area. Existing tools, based on the use of acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCPs), either...
As we move through 2021, it is clear that making connections under the current circumstances is an on-going challenge faced by businesses across a number of sectors. With the fast-growing marine renewable energy industry, facilitating connections across the supply chain is key to keeping the...