Master of Science - Marine Renewable Energy (F7AX)

Bangor University

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and aid sustainable development, there is an urgent need to support electricity generating capacity through the development of low carbon technologies, particularly those generated from renewable sources. The ocean represents a vast and largely untapped energy resource, that could be exploited as a form of low carbon electricity generation, and there is much European and global commercial and Research and Development (R&D) activity in this energy sector.

The United Kingdom (UK) is the world leader in the development of wave and tidal stream technologies, and if marine energy deploys globally. The aim of this Master of Science - Marine Renewable Energy programme is to equip students with the skills necessary to identify and quantify the potential of specific locations for marine renewable energy generation installations, with an emphasis on the resource (waves and tides), time series analysis, numerical modelling, and the challenges faced when placing arrays of devices in the marine environment.