Wave and Tidal power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 59.1399, -2.8057.
Wave and TidalScotlandUnited Kingdom
Fall of Warness Tidal Demonstrator (EMEC) is a 2 MW wave and tidal power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by Bluewater Energy Services/ Scotrenewables. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,251 homes (estimated). It ranks #2259 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0002402.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Bluewater Energy Services/ Scotrenewables.
This wave and tidal plant converts the motion of waves or tides into electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 59.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 49% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 79/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #4 largest wave and tidal power plant of 7 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 7 wave and tidal power plants in this dataset, together about 38 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 59.1399, -2.8057 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
