Our national FLOWIC facility is home to cutting-edge equipment, including a large-scale dynamic cable test rig, an anchor test rig, a wind scale motion simulator (hexapod) and a virtual reality stu...

ORE Catapult’s £9 million national Floating Wind Innovation Centre (FLOWIC) was officially opened on Monday 18th March in Aberdeen.

Scotland’s First Minister, the Rt Hon. Humza Yousaf MSP officially opened the world’s first dedicated innovation centre for floating offshore wind.

The Digital, Autonomous and Robotics Engineering (DARE) Centre testing facility in Blyth was opened on 18 May 2023 by Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Rt Hon. Graham Stuart MP. Downlo...

Built and designed by Osbit Ltd, ORE Catapult’s state-of-the-art cable bend fatigue test rig, will support the development and improvement of subsea cables.

An aerial view of ORE Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth, Northumberland.

The 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration Turbine. Credit: ORE Catapult

ORE Catapult’s 100m Blade Test Facility