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• A deep water port with no restrictions on access and with facilities for building and deploying very large devices.
• Available connections to the 400 KV National Grid
Welsh Government Support Wave and tidal energy companies are being encouraged to undertake operations in Wales with those setting up facilities in West Wales and the Valleys being able to apply for European funding from a €100,400,000 budget that is being managed by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO).
Yet more to come Pembrokeshire has also secured other funding, including some via the Swansea City Deal, that will be used to develop a series of supporting projects. These are:- • Marine Energy Test Area (META) where components, devices and deployment techniques can be tested in relatively sheltered waters before being incorporated in devices that will be deployed in the harsher conditions that are found further offshore
• Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE) which is to be developed in Pembroke Dock and supported by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
• The Pembrokeshire Wave Demonstration Zone. This zone of the southern coast of Pembrokeshire was designated by the Crown Estates and the lease is being managed by WaveHub who have extensive experience of establishing a wave energy test facility via their operations in Cornwall
• Redevelopment of land within Pembroke Port to provide space where marine energy devices can be constructed and maintained. Part of this project will see
a number of
companies are still in various stages of discussion about how they can
exploit these in the future some have already got their feet on the ground in Pembrokeshire.
Currently three companies, Marine Power Systems, Wave-tricity and Bombora Wave Power, are active in the County.
Wave-tricity,
with support via a £4million European funding package commissioned local engineering
companies to build their first
generation OCEAN WAVE ROWER which has been deployed for testing in the Milford Haven Waterway.
https://wave-
tricity.com Marine Power
Systems have developed their WaveSub technology and a quarter scale has been built in by Ledwood Engineering in Pembroke Dock. The scale device will be tested at the FaBTest facility in Cornwall. Following testing a full sized 100m long full scale device capable of generating 5000MW will be built.
http://marinepowersystems.co.uk
Bombora Wave Power is the latest addition to the Pembrokeshire scene. An Australian company Bombora is in the process of establishing is new headquarters in Pembroke Dock with key staff relocating from Australia. The Welsh team will focus on a two and
Wavesub – Developed by Marine Power Systems this device is now being tested in the Milford Haven Waterway
extended quayside facilities developed In addition to these factors the former Marine Energy Pembrokeshire organisation, which facilitates positive interaction between device developers, academia, consenting bodies and others has, at the request of the industry, recently rebranded and re-launched as Marine Energy Wales. These many benefits have been welcomed by device developers and whilst
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a half year, €20 million project to design, fabricate and test the first 1.5 MW mWave prototype. Bombora is in discussions with Marine Energy Wales and the MilfordHaven Port Authority to secure both construction and test sites.
http://www.bomborawave.com
The local supply chain have been active in constructing these devices for Marine Power Systems and Wave-tricity and before them a tidal flow device for Tidal Energy Limited. This latter device is currently located in Ramsey Sound, but unfortunately the company are no longer in business.
Deltastream – the first marine energy device to be deployed off the Pembrokeshire Coast
The future As the marine energy industry is still in its’ infancy with new companies conceiving and testing innovative solutions to harness and utilise the power of the sea it will be a number of years before marine energy becomes a mainstream source of power. Hopefully, when this recognition is achieved Pembrokeshire based companies will be seen as world leaders, in the meantime Pembrokeshire has already assured its position as an important base for the development and exploitation of this exciting new industry.
Further information about the marine energy opportunities in Pembrokeshire and the rest of Wales can be obtained from
David Jones, Marine Energy Wales --
www.marineenergywales.co.uk Tel: 01646 405690 Or Tony Streatfield, Pembrokeshire County Council, --
tony.streatfield@
pembrokeshire.gov.uk Tel: 01437 776166
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