Welcome to the MREDS website. MREDS (Marine Renewable Energy Development in Scotland) is a major research programme led by ICIT Heriot–Watt University, under which marine renewable energy research opportunities are developed. The prime objective of MREDS is to seek ways of strengthening the marine renewables sector in Scotland and it covers 6 key themes:
- Export constraints, externalities and opportunities
- Petroleum and renewables
- Mitigation, minimisation and management of risk
- Hydrodynamics, moorings and foundations
- Environmental and ecological impacts
- Socio-economic values and responses
MREDS has already led to a key strategic involvement between Heriot–Watt University and the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) network in terms of developing research capacities; and with the Orkney based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in terms of optimising opportunities for further development of research capacity, linked to its unique wave and tidal test facilities.
ICIT is a specialist arm of the prestigious Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE) at Heriot-Watt University established in 1989 to carry out advanced research, postgraduate training and consultancy in marine resource management and more recently marine renewable related issues.