The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has decided to use MIKE by DHI for studying water levels, currents and waves in the often rather harsh environment at EMEC’s test sites in the Orkney Islands located NW of Scotland, UK.

EMEC is a test centre created to promote the development of the wave and tidal stream energy conversion industries in the UK and wider. The established open-sea grid-connected test facility allows a ‘plug and play’ approach for testing of new wave and tidal energy devices in full scale.

The wave test site is located off the west coast of Mainland Orkney, 2km off Billia Croo bay. There are currently four test berths located in water depths of approximately 50m. The average significant wave height is approximately 1.9m. ADCP measurements at Fall of Warness show that the strong tidal stream has significant impact on the wind-sea and swell wave climate due to wave-current interaction processes.