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EMEC’s managing director, Neil Kermode OBE, has been awarded the Excellent Contribution Award on the Subsea Expo Awards 2024.
Organised by International Underwater Hub (GUH), the annual Subsea Expo Awards have fun the achievements of firms and people working throughout the oil and gasoline, decommissioning, offshore vitality, defence, aquaculture and marine science sectors.
This yr’s Excellent Contribution Award was offered to Neil Kermode OBE, managing director of the European Marine Power Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.
For the previous 20 years, Neil has devoted his profession to combatting local weather change, figuring out, innovating and trialling options that may cut back carbon emissions and driving the worldwide improvement of the marine renewable vitality sector.
This dedication to a carbon-free society has resulted in lots of ‘first of its sort’ experimental initiatives at EMEC spanning marine vitality applied sciences, subsea information centres, inexperienced hydrogen demonstrations, and the creation of sustainable aviation gasoline.
As a passionate and unrelenting advocate for marine renewables, Neil has pushed the event of EMEC and the UK’s marine vitality trade, lobbying for regulatory and coverage change and pushing for public sector help to cement the UK because the centre of the wave and tidal vitality trade.
Underneath Neil’s stewardship, extra marine vitality applied sciences have demonstrated at EMEC in Orkney than anyplace else on the earth.
Sue Barr, Chair, UK Marine Power Council, nominated Neil for the award:
“The GUH Excellent Contribution Award seeks to search out individuals who actually have given their all for his or her trade. Neil personifies this, along with his work at EMEC but in addition extra broadly. His considerate method to how we describe and place the marine vitality trade in a turbulent coverage and world panorama has been inspirational and we’re fortunate to have him championing the marine vitality sector.”
Neil Kermode OBE, managing director of EMEC mentioned:
“I’m genuinely grateful for the award from this essential trade. The work accomplished underwater each day in Scotland is outstanding and the abilities and gear used are precisely what we might want to assist make offshore wind, tidal and wave energies a hit. I’m delighted that my small contribution via my work at EMEC to those burgeoning sectors is recognised and consider this reveals the transition the oil and gasoline sector is making in the direction of renewables.”
Neil Gordon, chief govt of International Underwater Hub, mentioned:
“The Subsea Expo Awards recognise the innovators, collaborators, exporters, firms and people main the way in which within the underwater trade. What the awards present yr on yr is the energy and variety of the UK’s underwater provide chain in addition to the expertise and experience working throughout it.”
