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Marine Renewables Deployment Fund

In August 2004 the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry announced the setting up of the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund (MRDF) with a budget of £50M. 

The MRDF has four components, the Wave and Tidal-stream Energy Demonstration Scheme, environmental research, related research and infrastructure support.

Wave and Tidal-stream Energy Demonstration Scheme

This provides capital grants and revenue support to multi-device early stage commercial generation facilities using technologies that have completed their R&D and are ready to move into a commercial environment.  It accounts for £42M of the MRDF’s budget and forms the core of the MRDF.  On 15 March 2007 Energy Minister Lord Truscott announced that the Scheme would be moving to an “open call” process in which applications could be received at any time. 

Before submitting a completed application form, applicants are strongly advised to:

  • Carefully read the Scheme Definition Document, Guidance Notes for Applicants and the Grant Letter Template (these can be downloaded from the links at the top right of this page) to ensure they fully understand the Scheme’s eligibility rules and terms and conditions. 
  • Discuss their plans with DTI’s MRDF management contractor AEA Technology.  Phil Michael (0870 190 6195, phil.michael@aeat.co.uk) or Howard Rudd (0870 190 6240, howard.rudd@aeat.co.uk) would be pleased to hear from potential applicants. 

Environmental Research

Generic research on the environmental impacts of wave and tidal stream.  The DTI’s Research Advisory Group (RAG) is taking this forward.  £2M of DTI funding from the MRDF has been allocated to this activity.  For more information on the work of RAG, please refer to:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/sources/renewables/policy/offshore/research-advisory-group/page22590.html

Related Research

This is to allow DTI to commission a small number of relevant research projects to help the MRDF achieve its objectives.  In May 2007 DTI published two monitoring protocols to enable devices deployed under the Wave and Tidal-stream Energy Demonstration Scheme to report their performance in a consistent, transparent, unambiguous and meaningful way.  These were produced by Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities and funded under the “related research” part of the MRDF.  DTI will commission specific items of work as and when it identifies particular needs in the management of the MRDF and is not inviting unsolicited proposals.

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