Apologies for my wonky metaphor there but I couldn’t think of one for a subsea technology. A centre of excellence is to be based in Aberdeen with £2.5 million from the Scottish Government. The new centre to be run by Balmoral Offshore Engineering will offer facilities for sub-sea pressure testing of new devices such as, presumably, tidal wave turbines of the kind reported already here at:
Orkney’s giant tidal turbine is the world’s most powerful
You’ll see from these previous headlines that Scotland is already well-underway. The First Minister goes further:
‘Scotland is a world leader in subsea engineering, already accounting for around 15 per cent of the £50 billion global subsea market and as our Subsea Engineering Action plan has outlined, we want to build on this, supporting companies to grow and ensure we have the class-leading test and research infrastructure needed to meet future needs of a sector that already employs 38,000 in Scotland.’
The new facility will double the capacity of Scotland’s testing facilities for ‘open access pressure testing.’
https://news.gov.scot/news/support-for-subsea-testing-centre-of-excellence
Talking-up Scotland 