Working with us
Aquamarine’s success has been made possible through important collaborations with a number of key partners and sponsors.
Aquamarine has worked with this influential group in the design and deployment of six wave power modules. They have a strong track record in wave power generation going back to the 1970s, when they developed Wells Turbines. The team was presented with the ESSO Energy Award in 1994 by the Royal Society for their contribution to engineering. The QUB team is now involved in wave power projects in the UK, the Azores and Australia.
Support for the wave power industry at a UK level is led by the Department for Trade and Industry’s Renewable Energy section. The Technology Strategy Board has provided funding for Aquamarine's tidal and wave power prototype development.
Funded by the Scottish Executive and other public sector bodies, EMEC was opened in 2004 and provides multi-berth, purpose-built, open sea test facilities for wave and tidal marine energy converters. Aquamarine Power’s first full-scale wave power prototype sea trial is planned to start at EMEC in 2008; with a full scale demonstration of a 2.4MW tidal prototype scheduled for 2009.
The RAEng is Britain’s national academy for engineering, bringing together the country’s most eminent engineers from all disciplines to promote excellence in the science, art and practice of engineering. The RAEng has co-funded research on an Oyster desalination module in the Canaries with Aquamarine.
The UK’s main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing around £500 million a year in a broad range of subjects, including renewables. The EPSRC has awarded an industrial CASE PhD scholarship to Aquamarine and Queens’ University Belfast.
ITC specialises in research, development and innovation of strategic technologies for the sustainable development of the Canary Islands. A large proportion of the projects at ITC involve the investigation into the expoitation of renewable energy and the provision of desalinated water. Aquamarine is working in partnership with ITC to develop Oyster™'s capacity to power desalination plant.™
