Renewables

Renewables

Pembroke Port is ideally placed as a base for marine renewable device testing and manufacturing and offers the following:

Pembrokeshire provides the highest concentration of wave resource in Wales and also has significant tidal streams; ideal maritime conditions for both Wave and Tidal Flow technology.

  • indicative capacity of up to 5600MW in wave resource
  • annual wave power up to 25KW per metre
  • tidal flows around the islands up to 4ms-1
  • within 1km of the port tidal flows
Our Unique Selling Points

The waterway can offer a range of sites that can be tailored to meet your technology readiness level, from nursery sites upwards.

Information can be made available for your project on wave and tidal data, and seabed conditions.

The Port also offers:

  • Specialist workboat manufacturing
  • Onsite customised boat builders specialising in steel, aluminium or GRP
  • In comparison to other UK coastal sites, existing land based grid connections are excellent in Pembrokeshire with a 400 kV National Grid connection being available at the Pembroke Power Station site
  • Established Energy Sector Workforce Development Group
  • Public and private sector partners working together to address the increasing manpower needs of the sector
  • Offices to let, storage, workshops, warehouses and industrial units to let with 11 kV power supply onsite, all within the Milford Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone
  • Close to Bridge Innovation Centre – Pembrokeshire Science & Technology Park

Member of Marine Energy Pembrokeshire (M.E.P.)

Collaborative working between technology developers, academia, industry and the public sector that is facilitated by www.marineenergypembrokeshire.co.uk results in the sharing of information that saves developers time and money.

This approach enables you to concentrate on your priorities – getting devices into the water.


Tidal Energy Ltd

Being located in close proximity to the significant tidal resource off Pembrokeshire our Quays at Pembroke Dock are ideally located and equipped to be used for the operation and maintenance facility for Tidal Energy Ltd's DeltaStream demonstration project in Ramsey Sound and other future developments.


For further information, please contact Claire Palmer on +44 (0) 1646 696157 or claire.palmer@mhpa.co.uk