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Marine Energy Accelerator

The Marine Energy Accelerator, which ran from 2007 to 2010 was designed and managed by CT and funded by DECC. The programme focussed on reducing teh cost of energy from wave and tidal stream technologies. The final report of the MEA was published in July 2011 and contains case studies of various MEA projects. It also includes analysis of the UK wave and tidal stream resource, and identifies pathways towards continued cost reduction in the industry, and towards full exploitation of the UK resource whih has the potential to generate about 15% - 20% of the UK’s electricity.

Introduction

The Marine Energy Accelerator was aimed at helping achieve marine energy cost reduction through 3 distinct strands, as follows:

Next generation concepts
Developing new device concepts that could significantly marine energy lower costs
Device components
Research into lowering costs of specific components in existing marine energy devices
Installation, operation & maintenance
Developing strategies on how to improve ways marine energy devices can be installed, operated and maintained at a lower cost.

The Marine Energy Accelerator invested £3.5m and operated until the end of 2010. During the accelerator, we worked with: