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WINNER! Best Offshore Renewables Innovation at the 2017 UK Energy Innovation Awards. Synaptec beat the largest ever entry field to win this prestigous award for our Refase™ product. By their nature, offshore windfarms are hard to reach so when something goes...

Synaptec’s Managing Director, Philip Orr, was interviewed recently by InnovOil’s editor, Andrew Dykes, about Synaptec’s technology and its application to security and monitoring in the offshore sector. You can read the article here or download it for offline...

PRESS RELEASE, 2nd August 2016 A spin out company from the University of Strathclyde has secured funding from one of Scotland’s leading angel syndicates to help it break into the renewable energy and subsea markets. Synaptec, which has developed high performance fibre...

Synaptec will collaborate with ScottishPower, GE Grid Solutions, ABB and the University of Manchester to deliver an innovation project designed by SP Energy Networks to help deliver a smarter electricity network for consumers. The project, to be led by ScottishPower...

Synaptec is to develop its novel measurement technology as part of a Network Innovation Allowance project supported by the UK electricity network operators Scottish Power Transmission and Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission. The Network Innovation Allowance (NIA),...

Synaptec’s Innovate UK success has been featured very positively in this week’s Scotland on Sunday. Synaptec’s Managing Director, Dr Philip Orr, was interviewed by the Scotsman for the article, which describes the formation and goals of the company and its support...

This week, the engineering and technology magazine The Engineer writes about Synaptec’s sensing technology, and how it can be used to provide fast and inexpensive fault location and isolation on electrical power transmission and distribution networks. Synaptec’s...

Synaptec is to be the lead partner on one of the first Energy Catalyst projects to be supported by Innovate UK. The Energy Catalyst has been established by Innovate UK, EPSRC, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change to accelerate innovation in the energy...

Synaptec has been shortlisted in the category of Start-Up at the IET Innovation Awards. The judging panel evaluates candidates based on the technical novelty of their innovation and how it will significantly change the world for the better. The shortlisted candidates...

Synaptec has been awarded the prize for Best University Technology at the 2014 UK Energy Innovation Awards. Organised by the Energy Innovation Centre, and backed by leaders from the UK’s gas, electricity and renewables sectors, the UK Energy Innovation Awards...