Marine, Wave and Tidal

Energy Technologies Institute’s pilot programme in marine energy

We invite organisations to join us to develop a small number of major new development and demonstration projects in marine energy. We expect projects to be funded at a level of £5million to £10million.

Marine energy could supply up to 2GW of UK electricity demand by 2020 and significantly more than this by 2050. However, progress towards commercial devices has been slower than predicted. ETI funding is well placed to accelerate the development and small demonstration phases by the commercial and end-user focus brought by ETI’s industrial membership.

The UK is leading internationally in the development of marine energy but further development investment is needed to move the technology forward. We aim to bring together UK and international expertise to support and to accelerate the realisation of marine energy as a major contributor to energy provision.

Projects are likely to be large multi organisation consortia and we expect to fund two or three large integrated projects.

For full details of the programme, please download the ETI Marine Information Pack.

The Invitation for Expressions of Interest in this programme is currently closed.

Selected participants were invited to a two-day workshop to start to develop projects and consortia. The workshop took place in Loughborough on 31st March and 1st April 2008. If you were not invited to the first workshop, you may still have the opportunity to participate later in the programme if you have particular expertise or technology that is identified as an important component of developing projects.