Watch the video on WES's creation, purpose and impact.
About Wave Energy Scotland
The Scottish Government, realising the challenges in private sector investment for wave energy technology developers, incorporated Wave Energy Scotland (WES) in 2014.
WES is the principal group driving the search for innovative solutions to the technical challenges facing the wave energy sector. As a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) WES operates to facilitate research and development activity to accelerate the development of wave energy technologies and their subsystems.
Our impact
Discover our headline figures
funded contracts
organisations benefited from our support
awarded contracts
countries involved in our wave energy programmes
Discover the detailed process of PCP (Video credit: EuropeWave)
The Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) model
WES uses a pre-commercial procurement model to drive innovation. This is effectively a technology competition, where a number of potential suppliers enter the programme through an open tender and then carry out a phase of development. At the end of the phase, the concepts are tested, and the best technology is taken through to the next stage for further development. This continues for 3 phases of development, until mature technology can be achieved.
The advantage of this approach to the suppliers is that they can receive up to 100% funding to develop their technology, and the public procurer can quickly identify the best technology through this competitive approach.
This funding mechanism was absolutely essential to Mocean Energy being launched as a company.Cameron McNatt, Co-founder and Managing Director, Mocean Energy
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