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Advertisement EMEC has welcomed Spanish tidal energy developer Magallanes Renovables back to its tidal test site at the Fall of Warness in Orkney, Scotland. The successful reinstallation of Magallanes’ second generation 2 MW tidal platform ‘ATIR’ took place on 19 April 2021. The Magallanes team worked in collaboration with Orkney-based marine service provider Leask Marine, along with the Orkney Harbour Authority tug Thor, to install the platform in an operation lasting eight hours. In the coming weeks, the ATIR will be connected to the national electricity grid. Magallanes Renovables ha...

Spanish tidal energy developer Magallanes Renovables has reinstalled its 2MW Atir device at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) at the Fall of Warness in Orkney, Scotland. Magallanes worked in collaboration with Orkney-based marine service provider Leask Marine, along with the Orkney Harbour Authority tug Thor, to install the platform in an operation lasting eight hours on 19 April. EMEC said that in the coming weeks Atir will be connected to the national grid. Atir was initially launched in 2017 and underwent tow testing in Vigo, Spain, prior to being installed and connected to the nati...