The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), located in the Orkney Islands in the North of Scotland, is recognised as the world’s leading marine power device test facility offering developers the opportunity to test full scale grid connected prototype devices in unrivalled wave and tidal conditions. As part of our unwavering commitment to developing the marine power sector in the United Kingdom, Atlantis is delighted to announce that we intend on deploying our commercial scale 1MW AK-1000™ turbine in Q2 2010. The AK-1000 turbine is a Horizontal Axis Turbine (HAT) designed for open ocean deployment in the harshest environments on the planet. Atlantis AK series turbines feature a unique twin rotor set with fixed pitch blades eliminating the requirement for sub-sea nacelle rotation to improve operational reliability. The AK-1000 turbine is rated at 1MW @ 2.6m/s and has been designed for cost efficient open ocean nacelle retrieval.

EMEC is the pathway to large scale deployments in water surrounding the United Kingdom where there may be in excess of 3GW of economically exploitable tidal power resource.