Marine Offshore Renewables group launches
A Marine Offshore Renewables (MOR) group was officially launched last month, encompassing Devon and Cornwall in the South West of England.
The launch event in Saltash saw speakers from Cornish marine renewables companies A&P Group, Mojo Maritime and Insight Marine Projects Ltd highlight the benefits that MOR membership could bring to businesses that currently supply, or plan to supply, services to the offshore marine renewable industry. It explained how the MOR group fits into the wider industry and the new South West Marine Energy Park (SWMEP), plus the events that it has planned in the coming months.
MOR is a sub-group within Cornwall Marine Network (CMN) and was formed by a network of like-minded businesses that are currently providing services to the marine and offshore renewable industry around the UK and overseas.
The aim of the group is to provide a unified supply chain voice from the far South West, encourage the development of offshore renewable energy within its waters, and to provide project developers and other clients with an integrated local supply chain all within one single professional brand.
MOR also aims to jointly market the skills and expertise of local companies to the national and international renewable energy industry, and to promote partnering between members to enable them to tender for some of the larger or more diversified contracts.
The group is based in the South West but many of its members currently provide products and services to renewable energy clients throughout the UK and Europe, and as such will form an important part of the much publicised South West Marine Energy Park.