MEECE
The Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE) is working to put Wales and Welsh companies at the heart of the UK’s growing marine and offshore renewable energy sectors.
Based at Pembroke Dock, the centre delivers research, development and demonstration activities to support innovation in the Welsh supply chain, accelerating the commercialisation of the wave, tidal and offshore wind sectors by reducing cost of energy.
Our Wales presence has seen impressive growth over the past five years with MEECE becoming a multi-project office, embedded in various local clusters. The centre is a multi-million-pound collaboration between us and Welsh universities, funded by the Welsh European Funding Office.
WHAT DOES MEECE OFFER
The purpose of the MEECE collaboration is to support innovative companies in West Wales and the Valleys region to develop new products, processes and services for the offshore renewables sector. We carry out a range of collaborative innovation projects to support these technology developments at minimal cost to the company.
These include:
Research
Research projects to establish feasibility and impact
Engineering
Design and construction of prototypes and scale models
Testing and demonstration
Testing and demonstration of prototypes, products and subassemblies at:
- The Marine Energy Test Area (META)
- Facilities at our partner universities including flume tanks and wind tunnels
- Our world-leading test facilities at the National Renewable Energy Centre, Blyth
SMART BUOY
The MEECE programme is using its ‘Smart Buoy’ to test innovative UK technologies.
The buoy provides a unique test and demonstration facility within the Marine Energy Test Area (META) in Pembrokeshire, allowing new marine products and services to be developed at minimal cost and risk to companies. This asset can be used to support a wide array of technology testing, with complete deployment, management and technical support.
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