The UK is dovetailing two long-standing renewables R&D programmes in a £5m ($6.5m) move designed to help speed new offshore energy technologies to market, while generating a ripple-out of academic, socio-economic and environmental benefits as the fast-emerging sector develops.
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Supergen, which brings together the wind and marine arms of the government-industry Sustainable Power Generation (Supergen) programme launched in 2001, will be led by a team at Plymouth University backed by a consortium including technology development bodies ORE Catapult and Innovate UK.
