This report summarises the key findings from a retrospective impact evaluation of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s activities during its first ten years of operation between April 2013 and March 2023. The evaluation was led by Frontier Economics, in consortium with Frazer-Nash Consultancy and BMG Research.

The evaluation provides a holistic assessment of the impact of ORE Catapult to date. It captures results from the first two five-year periods in which the UK Government provided ORE Catapult with core funding, building on early unpublished evaluations. It also tests the approach developed to evaluate the current Grant Funding Agreement (GFA) period for 2023 to 2028, which will be subject to future impact evaluation.

We have also published our own Impact Evaluation Summary Report, which can be accesssed here.