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Pelamis founder and inventor Richard Yemm recently received an Outstanding Contribution award from Scottish Renewables.

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It's been over a year since the E.ON Pelamis machine was first grid connected in Orkney.

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Pelamis Wave Power

Pelamis Wave Power

Pelamis is the world’s most advanced wave energy technology company. We're working with energy suppliers to develop and manufacture wave energy machines for clean, renewable energy.

The Technology

The Technology

The Pelamis is an offshore wave energy converter that uses the energy of ocean waves to generate electricity.

About Wave Power

About Wave Power

Offshore wave energy has the potential to be one of the most environmentally benign forms of electricity generation.

Our Projects

Our Projects
Pelamis Wave Power are working on a range of projects, from ongoing machine testing for customers to development of commercial wave farms off the coast of Scotland and Portugal. 

Pelamis founder Richard Yemm recognised with Outstanding Contribution award
Richard Yemm was presented with the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry at Thursday evening’s Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh. The award from Scottish Renewables was sponsored by Highlands & Islands Enterprise and recognises exceptional contribution to the renewables industry. In the announcement of the award, Scottish Renewables recognised Richard’s long standing and profound contribution to the renewables industry and wave energy in particular. Richard’s career in renewables began in the wind sector, with a novel design of wind turbine blade dampers that enabled extended manufacturing of blades in Glenrothes by overcoming an industry-wide vibration problem. While studying for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh under Professor Stephen Salter, Richard formed the first ideas of the Pelamis wave energy converter and established Pelamis Wave Power in 1998. Richard has spent the last 13 years developing and commercialising the Pelamis with involvement from the drawing board to the board room and from the wave-tank to the high seas. Under his leadership, Pelamis achieved the first grid electricity from offshore waves, Scotland’s first export order for wave energy technology, and the UK’s only sales for wave energy converters to utilities E.ON and ScottishPower Renewables. These machines are demonstrating the cutting edge of wave energy in preparation for scale manufacturing and deployment. Richard has also been active in political lobbying and was a driving vision behind the creation of the European Marine Energy Centre and the Marine Supply Obligation, which subsequently led to the 5ROCs market responsible for driving investment into the sector. He had the privilege of chairing Scottish Renewables through its formative years, helping to shape the combination of high ambition and pragmatic realism that has made Scottish Renewables such a success. Richard Yemm said: “I am really honoured to receive this award and am proud to be working in the renewable industry in Scotland at a time that so much progress is being made by so many outstanding people and organisations. “Behind any individual award there is always a huge team effort – Pelamis and the industry could not have achieved this much without a whole team of tremendously talented and dedicated people, and without the huge support we have been offered by our visionary investors, customers, supply chain and Government”. Pelamis featured in another award of the evening, as E.ON UK won the Scottish Green Energy Award for Best Project. This award recognised the visionary step E.ON have taken as the first utility company to order and operate a wave energy converter in the UK. The involvement and on-going support of E.ON in this Pelamis project is the biggest step towards commercial large scale deployment yet taken, and is now strengthened by the unique collaboration between E.ON and ScottishPower Renewables in the tandem testing of their two Pelamis machines at EMEC.   Photograph: Amaan Lafayette, Marine Development Manager at E.ON, with their ‘Best Project’ award, and Richard Yemm, Founder and Commercial Director at Pelamis Wave Power, with his ‘Outstanding Contribution’ award. The 10th annual Scottish Green Energy Awards were held on the 1st of December in Edinburgh’s recently re-opened National Museum of Scotland. Over 950 representatives from across the Scottish renewables industry attended the ceremony, which was hosted by BBC presenter Kaye Adams. Niall Stuart, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said: “The winners reflect the huge strength in Scotland’s renewable energy industry, and the range of different types of projects from new community wind developments to cutting-edge wave and tidal devices.  All of them will make their own important contribution to Scotland’s ambitions for renewables and in creating jobs, promoting investment and in cutting carbon emissions over the coming years.”  
Posted 02.12.11
Pelamis Wave Power are pleased to announce that the company has been shortlisted for an Innovator Award in this year's Offshore Achievement Awards. The Innovator Award is a new category for 2012 and recognises excellence in innovative technological solutions developed in the UK for the offshore energy sector. Pelamis Wave Power has been shortlisted for the Pelamis, an innovative machine used to generate electricity from offshore wave power, and is up against two other companies, Expro and Zenith. The Offshore Achievement Awards have recently been re-launched by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and for the first time in 26 years are open to offshore renewable energy companies in addition to the oil & gas industry. Winners will be announced on Thursday 15 March in Aberdeen. Details of the awards can be found here.
Posted 01.02.12
Today Pelamis Wave Power is celebrating our fourteenth anniversary, and some fantastic achievements and world firsts during those fourteen years, including: The world’s first export of electricity from an offshore wave energy converter to an onshore grid network Supply and commissioning of the world’s first multiple machine wave farm Securing the UK’s first commercial orders for wave energy converters from utility customers E.ON and ScottishPower Renewables An unrivalled portfolio of commercial projects, including customer led developments for Crown Estate leased sites Pelamis inventor and founder Richard Yemm said: “It’s unbelievable how much Pelamis has achieved over the past fourteen years. When we started wave energy was an academic curiosity, and now we are an important part of Scottish and UK Government strategy, have real machines generating into the grid, and utility customers developing real wave farms off our shores. From the first small tank test model in 1998 we have now designed, built and tested six full-scale machines and through that amassed a vast pool of knowledge and experience that gives us unrivalled insight into what we need to do next to deliver commercial wave farms in the next few years. It has been a tough but rewarding 14 years since our inception, and there is more than a tingle of excitement if I allow myself to think where we may be in another 14 years’ time!” Wave energy technology has the potential to supply a significant proportion of the world’s current global energy consumption, and the Pelamis vision for the future looks well beyond the UK’s waters. Per Hornung Pederson, CEO of Pelamis Wave Power, commented: “This fourteenth anniversary is a chance to look back on the immense achievements of Pelamis so far, and comes during a period in which utilities and governments are paying increased attention world-wide to the potential energy of the ocean’s waves. Pelamis is at the forefront of wave power technology and we’re excited to begin the next stage of commercial-scale deployments.”
Posted 26.01.12
An announcement was made today that experts from the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney are to collaborate with their marine energy counterparts from the Ocean University of China (OUC) in Shandong Province. Staff from EMEC will assist the university to develop a wave test centre in Shandong. Commenting on the announcement, Per Hornung Pedersen, Chief Executive Officer of Pelamis Wave Power, said: “Stronger ties between Scotland and China will be warmly welcomed by the renewables industry. As the marine industry moves towards serial production it is clear that it is a huge opportunity to combine Scottish and Chinese technical and manufacturing expertise.” A Memorandum of Understanding has also been signed to foster closer working relationships between EMEC, the University and Qingdao Municipal Science and Technology Commission. First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond announced the partnership while visiting the Shandong Province today, and also renewed a Memorandum Of Understanding between Scotland and Shandong Province, signed by the First Minister and Governor Jiang. A full press release can be found on EMEC’s website here. Photo: The Pelamis P2 machine built for E.ON is currently under demonstration at EMEC, returning to the site that the Pelamis prototype was first installed in 2004
Posted 07.12.11