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The Marine Power Council (MEC) has introduced 13 firms which have joined as Lead Companions to assist its purpose to make the UK the world chief in tidal stream and wave vitality.
The MEC, established in 2018, has been instrumental in enhancing the funding panorama for marine vitality within the UK. This contains securing three successive tidal stream ringfences and elevating the profile of wave vitality’s position sooner or later vitality combine.
The MEC has undergone an thrilling interval of progress, with members becoming a member of from internationally working to understand marine vitality’s potential. To assist the organisation growing its exercise the MEC launched a Lead Partnership mannequin for 2024/25.
MEC’s Lead Companions are the trade leaders in tidal stream and wave vitality, representing probably the most revolutionary firms and organisations working on the forefront of realising the UK’s 30 GW+ of marine vitality potential.
Lead Companions will play a key position within the MEC’s future, taking positions on the MEC’s Board, and can present strategic course to the MEC’s actions.
The Lead Companions are:
- CorPower Ocean: a Swedish wave vitality firm with a pilot-project presently deployed in Portugal and a 5 MW array deliberate in Eire.
- The European Marine Power Centre: first established in 2003 EMEC is the world’s main take a look at centre and has delivered over £370m GVA to the UK economic system.
- HydroQuest: a number one tidal stream firm that has piloted its 1 MW array turbine for 2 years in France.
- HydroWing: secured a 10MW tidal stream contract within the Authorities’s newest renewable public sale and just lately opened up new places of work in north Wales to assist challenge supply.
- Leask Marine: worldwide marine contractors which have accomplished over 900 main offshore tasks world wide.
- Magallanes Renovables: a Spanish tidal stream firm that has secured over 10 MW renewable contracts to ship tasks in Scotland and Wales.
- Minesto: with operations in Wales, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Northern Eire and Taiwan, Minesto is a Nasdaq-listed tidal stream kite firm, enjoying a number one position in delivering the Faroe Islands’ ambition to ship a decarbonised vitality system by 2030.
- Morlais: Anglesey-based tidal stream vitality challenge with 240 MW of capability.
- Nova Innovation: a world-leading marine vitality firm and specialists in tidal stream, floating photo voltaic and marine companies. In 2023, Nova Innovation just lately secured Horizon Europe funding to ship SEASTAR and set up 16 tidal generators at EMEC in Orkney.
- Offshore Renewable Power Catapult: the UK’s main innovation centre for offshore renewable vitality.
- Spiralis Power: an Earthshot Prize nominee tidal developer that efficiently examined its axial skelter prototype in Might 2024. Spiralis is searching for to deploy its first array comprised of generators manufactured from recycled plastic, survivable for 25 years within the ocean.
- Scottish Renewables: the voice of Scotland’s renewable vitality trade.
- Wave Power Scotland: a Scottish Authorities programme that has supported over 130 tasks, committing £50m to 300 separate organisations, throughout 18 nations.
Sue Barr, Chair of the MEC welcomed the brand new Lead Companions:
“Tidal stream and wave vitality can have a key position in delivering the UK’s internet zero ambitions. The MEC was created to offer tidal stream and wave vitality a voice and assist efforts to make the UK enticing to buyers and know-how builders from world wide.
“Because of the assist of our Lead Companions our work can proceed. With a world-leading pipeline of tidal stream tasks, and vital wave vitality useful resource, I stay up for working with the Lead Companions and the brand new Board in realising the UK’s marine vitality potential.”
