”Creating a supportive marine energy landscape in Wales”

David Jones, Project Director, Marine Energy Wales Conference 2019

• Background to MEW and marine energy in Wales

• Is it worth it?

• State of the Sector Report (Wales 2019)

• MEW future priorities

• Is it worth it?

Marine Energy Wales

Marine Energy Wales brings together technology developers, the supply chain, academia and the public sector to establish Wales as a global leader in sustainable

marine energy generation

• CiC 2000 / MEP2008 / MEW2016

• 20 international and national wave and tidal developers interested in Wales / SC / Gov / PB

• Policy / Supply Chain / Research / Consents / Test Centre Network / Collaboration (10 years)

• MoU Canada / Marine I Cornwall / Wave Hub / Scotland / Brittany / Sweden / DoE

• Wales is committed to Marine Energy

Fake news??

• DECC energy funding budget since 2010 marine energy <0.1%

• Every £1 of public funding has leveraged circa £7 of private investment

• High % is overseas investment which would not have been spent in the UK

• Circa 70 - 80% captured in UK SC

• Marine has been a net contributor to UK plc even through innovation phase

Fake news v facts

Marine Energy in Wales – Economic benefits

• MEW State of the Sector Report 2019

• Before commercialisation – tidal stream / wave and tidal range

• Direct impacts

• Peripheral coastal economies / high skilled jobs

• Supply chain diversity and resilience

• Driving international inward investment, innovation and research

Is it worth it? Socio-economic benefits to Wales

Marine Energy in Wales – Economic benefits

Marine Energy in Wales – Economic benefits

• Coastal regions = £46m Anglesey £44m Pembrokeshire

• £46M tidal stream / £12.5M wave / £6.2M range

• 566 person years of employment / 133 FTEs direct

• > 50% Welsh SC content Minesto 70% - Bombora 60% within 20 mile radius / MPS delivering over 200 contract to the Welsh SC

• Supply chain capability

• Increase as further funding allocated / projects progress to delivery

Marine Energy in Wales Socio-economic benefits

£27M / UK HQ in Anglesey 80MW / Created 30 jobs 100 SC / £3m UK contracts / Fabrication Hall with Stenna

£33M / 8 developers awarded berths at West Anglesey Demo Zone 193.5MW of grid agreement. Shared infwith Minesto 240MW

£0.5M Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone Feasibility

£3M MPS constructed ¼ scale WaveSub device in Pembroke Dock / Testing / Full ScaleDesign

£76m Pembroke Dock MarineUK Catapult MEECE / META / Demo Zone / Port Inf

£6M Wave-tricity constructed and testing Ocean Wave Rower PTO and design

£1.3B SBTL project / Developmentconsent / Hendry Review

recommendation for pathfinderproject is a “no regrets policy”

£17M SEACAMS 2 Research

Tidal energy impoundmentand coastal defence

YnNi Llŷn communityproject local use of energy

EU HQ in Pembroke£20M project using META

Offshore floating wind – PDZSW Wales

Magallanes / QED Naval / TTT / Minesto / MPS / Corpower / SME / REAC / G-Kinetic / Atlantis / Torcardo / Orbital / Nautricity / Wave-Tricity/ Wello / NOVA

Bombora + MAKO + Carnegie - Australia

NEDO + Wave energy Tech + OPT + Test site – Japan / Schottel – Singapore

Eni Wave – Italy / Wello – Estonia / Water2Energy – Antwerp / Design Pro + Hace+ Hydroquest +Ell Energy + Sabella France / OPERA + LifeDEMO + Magallanes –Spain / SINN Power Greece / Waves4power Norway / Weptos+ Wavepiston Denmark / Evopod – Portugal

SME + Cape Sharp Tidal + Big Moon Power - Canada

Gov Indo and S.Korea agree to test site Wello CIMC to in China

Borne Tidal – Cape Cod / BOLT Hawaii $23M DoE Fund

OPT – Chile

Country Denmark UK

Population 5.7 million 65.6 million

Installed wind capacity 5,476 MW 18,872 MW

Wind capacity per capita 1.0 kW/person 0.3 kW/person

Wind sector employment 32,898 14,000

Wind sector turnover 15.7 Billion EUR 7.8 Billion EUR

Wind sector exports 7.3 Billion EUR 0.3 Billion EUR

Wind exports per capita 1,280 EUR 5 EUR

Graphical representation of wind exports per capita

RundetaarnCopenhagen, 42 m

British Bulldog, 0.2 m

UK arms exports 2016: 7.2 Billion EUR

Not actual size

Slide from NOVA innovation

Is it worth it? Capitalising on early mover advantage - Lessons from onshore wind: UK v Denmark, 2016

Next steps for MEW

• Industry led business plan and outputs / Prioritised quarterly

• Work with and influence Welsh Government policy/support

• Working Group meetings / Consenting / Demonstration Zones

• Single Point Access – bespoke support

• Collaborate / Research / META

• Education / Public awareness and support

• Continue to collaborate with RUK/SR/MEC to establish a RTM and UK policy support

Fitting into UK Policy

Five Foundations• Ideas• People• Infrastructure• Business environment• Places

Grand Challenges• AI & Data Economy• Future of Mobility• Clean Growth• Ageing Society

Three tests• Cost reduction• World leading• Carbon targets

Innovation• Industrial strategy• Capex and tax support

Supporting Government Strategies v Gov Policy

• Low carbon maritime opportunity that supports SC reliance and clusters / peripheral economies / inward investment / global export potential / long term energy security

• The UK are world leaders at the moment EMEC (Orkney) / FABTEST (Falmouth) / Wave Hub (Cornwall) / NAREC (Northumberland) / Smart Bay (Ireland)

• Deployments in Australia/China/Denmark/Singapore/Hawaii/Italy/Netherlands/Norway/Peru/Korea/Sweden/ Japan/ USA/Canada/France = £50-76 Billion worldwide by 2050

• ORE Catapult Report UK

• Low Carbon Economy is a driver for Wales – Marine as the next coal sector

• Planet Ocean, predictability - Climate Change Mitigation

Is it worth it?

“We are striving to make Wales a leading player in the marine energy field with energy generated from waves and the tide playing an important role in our ambitions for a low-carbon economy”. Our aim is to generate 70% of our energy from renewable sources by 2030. The marine energy sector can play a significant role in helping Wales achieve this target and will be closely aligned with Wales’ first National Marine Plan”

Mark Drakeford, First Minister