Baseload power
Predictable power from the sea. Tidal cycles can be forecast years ahead. Combined with wave generation and deployment across multiple locations, Pliosaur is designed to contribute a more dependable renewable electricity supply.
British marine renewable energy
Powering the future from the sea
A scalable marine-energy platform designed to harness tidal streams and ocean waves, deliver predictable renewable power and help remove floating debris from the ocean.
Predictable power
Renewable electricity from a forecastable marine resource
Wave + tidal
Two renewable resources from one offshore platform
Cleaner oceans
Energy infrastructure designed to collect floating debris
Why Pliosaur Energy
One platform. Five advantages.
Our technology brings together predictable generation, two marine energy resources, modular engineering and wider environmental value in one integrated offshore platform.
Wave + tidal energy
One platform. Two renewable resources. The platform is designed to capture energy from both tidal streams and ocean waves, increasing the renewable-energy potential of each deployment location.
Marine debris clean-up
Clean energy that cleans the ocean. Integrated collection screens are designed to capture floating marine debris while the platform generates renewable electricity.
Modular and scalable
Designed to grow. A modular architecture designed to progress from individual installations to larger connected marine-energy arrays.
Minimal landscape interference
Power offshore. Landscapes protected. Locating generation at sea reduces the amount of land required for generation infrastructure and limits its visual presence across the terrestrial landscape.
Cleaner oceans
Clean energy that cleans the ocean
The Pliosaur platform incorporates a debris-collection screen designed to intercept floating marine waste carried through the system.
Collected material can then be removed by operators, allowing renewable-energy infrastructure to contribute to cleaner seas as well as cleaner electricity.
An integrated platform
Designed differently from the start
Pliosaur Energy is taking a systems approach to marine renewable energy. Generation, structure, mooring, deployment, maintenance and environmental value are considered as parts of one integrated system.
The aim is to address the engineering, operational and infrastructure challenges that have limited the commercial deployment of marine energy.
One offshore platform designed to generate more value from every deployment.
Built to scale
From demonstration to connected arrays
The platform is being developed around modularity: prove the system, improve it through deployment and expand into larger marine-energy arrays.
Demonstrate
Prove the technology through practical offshore deployment.
Improve
Reduce costs and improve reliability, performance and maintainability.
Scale
Progress from individual platforms to larger connected arrays.
Minimal landscape interference
Renewable power with a lower visual profile
Locating generation offshore reduces the amount of land required for renewable-energy infrastructure and limits its presence across the terrestrial landscape.
The comparatively low profile of the Pliosaur platform is designed to reduce its visual impact when viewed from the coast.
A British opportunity
Renewable power, built in Britain
Pliosaur's proposed marine-energy arrays could create long-term demand for British maritime engineering, manufacturing and offshore operations.
Shipyards and ports
Deployment could create new activity for fabrication, assembly, vessel operations and long-term maintenance.
British manufacturing
The programme is designed to draw on UK capability in steel, electrical systems, shipbuilding and offshore engineering.
Coastal communities
Large-scale deployment could support skilled employment and sustained economic activity in coastal regions across the United Kingdom.
The next generation of marine energy
Clean power. Cleaner oceans. British engineering.
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