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SELKIE Draws the Curtain on 4 Years Project Operation

After four years of operation, the SELKIE project has reached its conclusion. This collaborative endeavour between two universities and four industry partners aimed to advance the development and deployment of marine renewable energy technologies in Wales and Ireland. In this blog post, we will explore

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SELKIE holds Closing Event at Swansea University

https://www.selkie-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/selkie_2023_-_cut_4-1080p.mp4 SELKIE held  its closing event on Friday 28th April at Swansea University’s Engineering Faculty.  The closing event was held as a hybrid format with both in- person attendance as well as  online.  The full agenda included evaluative updates from all 9 work packages that

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SELKIE delivers full support at MEW2023

SELKIE went all out at what will be the project’s last representation at the largest conference dedicated to Marine Energy in the United Kingdom.   MEW2023 was held at the impressive Swansea Arena, 21-22 March. This year’s conference was the most attended event by far, with

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SELKIE to Host Supply Chain Networking Event in Anglesey

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

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SELKIE Collaboration to Share Current Data from Irish Sea

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

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Selkie Delivers Education Session as part of Destination Renewables

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

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Initial Demonstration of the Selkie Operations & Maintenance Tool

https://youtu.be/jaN9Rf23dHs The 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

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Selkie Tank Testing Takes Off with Tidal Flyer

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

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A closer look at the Selkie GIS T-E Tool

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

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