Industrial regeneration
Deployment could help regenerate shipyards, ports and coastal industrial communities while creating new demand for fabrication, engineering and vessel operations.
Our mission
Harnessing the power of the ocean to support cleaner electricity, stronger maritime industries and healthier marine environments.
Redefining renewable energy
Powering a cleaner future from the sea
To harness the immense and predictable power of the world’s oceans and help build a cleaner, more secure and prosperous energy future.
Clean power
Predictable renewable electricity from the sea
British industry
Skilled employment, manufacturing and investment
Healthier oceans
Energy infrastructure designed to deliver more
Why marine energy
An opportunity extending far beyond renewable electricity
Marine renewable energy can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening energy security and supporting the transition away from fossil fuels.
The large-scale development of marine energy could also create skilled employment, attract investment, strengthen domestic supply chains and generate sustained demand for British manufacturing and engineering.
Our ambition is to establish marine renewable energy as
a commercially competitive source of electricity while
delivering lasting environmental, industrial and
economic value.
A national opportunity
Building a British marine-energy industry
Marine energy could support regional regeneration, strengthen sovereign industrial capability and create long-term economic activity across the four nations of the United Kingdom.
British supply chains
The programme could draw on established strengths in shipbuilding, steel fabrication, electrical systems, offshore construction and marine engineering.
Global leadership
Domestic deployment could establish technology, expertise and manufacturing capability capable of supporting a substantial future export industry.
How we will deliver
Practical engineering and phased deployment
Our ambition is to develop commercially competitive marine-energy technology and deploy it through a phased programme of demonstration projects and larger connected arrays.
Innovation is central to that programme. We will combine practical engineering, collaboration and proven solutions from other industries to reduce costs, improve reliability and accelerate deployment.
Demonstrate
Prove the technology through practical offshore
demonstration projects.
Improve
Continually reduce costs and improve reliability,
maintainability and performance.
Scale
Progress from individual installations to larger
connected marine-energy arrays.
Collaborate
Work with communities, ports, manufacturers,
researchers, governments and investors.
Protecting the ocean
Infrastructure that delivers more than electricity
We are committed to developing infrastructure that delivers more than renewable electricity alone.
By combining wave and tidal generation with the collection of floating marine debris, we aim to demonstrate that clean-energy projects can also contribute to ocean conservation and the protection of marine ecosystems.
Marine energy should create value for the climate, the
economy, coastal communities and the ocean itself.
Our long-term mission
A cleaner energy future and a stronger maritime economy
Our mission is to establish marine renewable energy as a commercially competitive source of electricity while helping rebuild Britain’s maritime industrial base, protect the world’s oceans and create lasting benefits for future generations.
Support our mission
Help move British marine energy from development to deployment.