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Quoceant

Nov 15, 2018
1 min

Quoceant to attend Marine Renewables Canada 2018 conference

Quoceant are delighted to be heading to the Marine Renewable Canada conference later in the month. Charles Taylor, Director at Quoceant, will be attending the three day event to be held in Halifax. This will be the third time Quoceant have taken part in the annual conference which brings together experts in technology, policy and environmental science from across the tidal and wave energy fields. If you would like to arrange a meeting with Charles during the even please get

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Anchor Down Your Costs - The role of mooring design in driving down the cost of wave energy

Rosalind Hart and Richard Yemm

Mar 7, 2018
4 min

Anchor Down Your Costs - The role of mooring design in driving down the cost of wave energy

Mooring is fundamental to all wave energy technologies. While its primary purpose is station keeping, mooring systems can provide much more depending on the characteristics of the wave energy converter (WEC). The right mooring design can enhance control, increase power absorption, provide greater machine survivability, and make operations and maintenance far more straightforward. At present, the wave energy sector is some way from being cost competitive with established ener

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Quoceant

Feb 14, 2018
1 min

Quoceant to speak at RUK Wave & Tidal Conference

We hope you can join us at the RUK wave & tidal conference on the 28th February 2018 in Glasgow. Quoceant Director, Richard Yemm, will give a presentation within session - B3: Taking a Fresh Look at Known Challenges: Being Smarter about O&M. His talk will focus on; Enabling Marine Renewables: Establishing Cost Effective O&M Facilities in Remote Locations. Some of the best sites for developing tidal and wave energy projects are located remotely, often far from existing infra

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Quoceant

Aug 17, 2017
1 min

Quoceant to head to EWTEC 2017

Quoceant will be attending the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2017 from 28th to the 31st of August. This year’s conference will be held in the city of Cork, Ireland and hosted in the beautiful University College Cork campus. The European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) series are international technical and scientific conferences, focused on ocean renewable energy and offering a high standard of academic and industrial contributions. Members o

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Edinburgh technology duo secure £2.5 million to develop advanced power take off system for wave powe

Quoceant

Mar 20, 2017
3 min

Edinburgh technology duo secure £2.5 million to develop advanced power take off system for wave powe

It’s a problem that has long thwarted wave energy pioneers – how to transform the slow back and forth motion of waves into a reliable and cost-effective stream of electricity. Now two Edinburgh firms – Artemis Intelligent Power and Quoceant – have together secured £2.5 million from Scottish agency Wave Energy Scotland to trial a prototype power take off system which helps to do just that. The duo has developed a technology dubbed ‘Quantor’ which for the first time includes th

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Quoceant

Jan 26, 2017
2 min

RenewableUK Wave and Tidal 2017

We are looking forward to taking part in RenewableUK's Wave and Tidal 2017 conference on the 23rd of February in London. Wave and Tidal 2017 will showcase the sectors innovation and achievement and will bring together industry and political stakeholders. Quoceant will be presenting in two of the sessions: Beth Dickens, "Plug & Play”: Rapid Installation and Removal Systems for Lower LCoE' - Safe and cost effective maintenance, repair, and monitoring of offshore structures is c

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Quoceant

Jan 11, 2017
1 min

A Material Gain for Wave Energy

Quoceant win funding for Structural Materials and Manufacturing Process project from Wave Energy Scotland. A team led by Quoceant has been selected as one of ten successful projects to receive funding from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) under their Innovation call targeting the development of alternative materials and manufacturing processes for use in the wave energy sector. Quoceant's project will focus on the use of advanced concrete engineering for wave energy converters and

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Energising and Enthusing - my trip to Marine Renewables Canada 2016

Beth Dickens

Nov 23, 2016
2 min

Energising and Enthusing - my trip to Marine Renewables Canada 2016

The buzz in the room at the Marine Renewables Canada annual conference earlier this month greatly energising and I was lucky enough to be a part of it. From government officials and policy makers, to supplier, developers and research engineers there was a wealth of experience to tap into and a host of connections to be made. Canada has massive marine renewable energy resources and it was immediately clear that the country, and especially Nova Scotia, is making significant st

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Quoceant

Nov 16, 2016
1 min

Take Control

Control is an area of fundamental importance to any wave energy device, yet it is often not fully considered or understood by technology developers. At Quoceant we have world-leading expertise in the control of wave energy systems having developed the control system and novel hydraulic power-take-off concept successfully demonstrated in the Pelamis Wave Power converter. Quoceant is also applying its ideas and engineering expertise to a collaborative project with Artemis Intel

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Press release

Nov 7, 2016
3 min

Three year collaboration between EMEC and FloWave offers wave and tidal energy developers ‘try-befor

The project, a collaboration between the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney and FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility at the University of Edinburgh, began in 2012 with the aim of substantially improving the accuracy of replicating open ocean conditions at tank scale. FloWave is a 25 metre circular test tank which is the only facility in the world with the capability to generate complex waves and fast tidal currents from any point of the compass. After three year

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Beth Dickens

Oct 27, 2016
1 min

Hello Canada

Quoceant are looking forward to attending the Marine Renewables Canada Conference this year, November 3-4th. We will be catching up with some of the great people and companies we met last year but we are also looking to develop new contacts and partnerships. I'll will be in Halifax from the 2nd so don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to meet or simply come find me at the conference. If you would like to arrange to meet at the conference please email at info@quocea

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Control Landscaping Study to Inform Wave Energy Development

Quoceant

Aug 31, 2016
1 min

Control Landscaping Study to Inform Wave Energy Development

Quoceant, working with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and SgurrControl Ltd, has completed a landscaping study into the control systems for wave energy convertors on behalf of Wave Energy Scotland (WES). Commissioned in March 2016, the overarching study was aimed at helping identify the future control requirements of the wave sector and enable targeted technology development and innovation. Ross Henderson, Quoceant project lead, said: “Control is an area of fund

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Quoceant to Present at Scottish Renewables Marine Conference

Rosalind Hart

Aug 31, 2016
1 min

Quoceant to Present at Scottish Renewables Marine Conference

Quoceant are getting ready for the Scottish Renewables Marine Conference on the 13th of September. We will be presenting and exhibiting at the flagship marine conference held in Inverness. Our Director, Richard Yemm will be giving a talk in session 2B, "Constructing the First Tidal Arrays". In the session Richard will outline Quoceant's activity in the tidal sector and discuss how our past experience working in the wave energy sector is offering lessons and new perspectives

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Quoceant's Innovative Inflatable Hull Technology Hits the Wave Tank

Beth Dickens

Jul 21, 2016
2 min

Quoceant's Innovative Inflatable Hull Technology Hits the Wave Tank

It’s a busy and exciting week for Quoceant this week. As part of our Novel Wave Energy Convertor technology project for Wave Energy Scotland we’re testing our Ectacti-Hull technology in the FloWave wave tank, throwing many different waves at the model and measuring how it behaves. Wave Energy Converters must be both robustly survivable and produce sufficient average yield to deliver attractive economic performance. Many different Wave Energy Converter (WEC) concepts, forms,

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Rosalind Hart

Mar 18, 2016
1 min

A Goodbye to the P2 Pelamis

A bit of a sad day for Quoceant as we say goodbye to the Pelamis 'P2-001' wave energy converter. The machine now owned by Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has begun to be dismantled at its original maintenance facility, near where it underwent testing in Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. The Quoceant team, all of whom, previously worked for Pelamis Wave Power ran the testing of the machine from 2010 to 2014 at the EMEC test site. The test programme (which involved two P2 Pe

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Quoceant

Feb 25, 2015
1 min

Wave Energy Scotland awards their 1st contract to Quoceant

Today, recently formed Quoceant Ltd announces a major contract from Wave Energy Scotland to provide specialist knowhow to consolidate and help utilise intellectual property assets recently purchased from Pelamis Wave Power’s administrators. Quoceant brings together a strong multidisciplinary team of former Pelamis engineers to form a unique new technology consultancy and engineering service provider. This new business will offer its knowledge and capability to the wider marin

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