MOJO MARITIME LIMITED

Their core work

Mojo Maritime is a UK coastal SME specialising in marine renewable energy, with hands-on experience in full-scale ocean energy demonstrations under real sea conditions. Based in Falmouth, Cornwall — the centre of the UK's marine energy cluster and home to the Wave Hub offshore test site — they contribute operational and engineering expertise to large Innovation Action projects rather than theoretical research. Their H2020 track record covers both wave energy conversion (WEC) at grid-connected scale and tidal turbine arrays, spanning the two main branches of ocean energy. They work as a specialist partner within multi-national consortia focused on proving that marine renewables can achieve competitive levelised cost of energy (LCOE).

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Mojo Maritime entered H2020 with a precise focus on wave energy — multiple WEC devices, grid connection, full-scale testing at Wave Hub, and LCOE benchmarking — signalling deep involvement in the UK wave energy demonstration ecosystem active in that period. By their second project (2017), their keyword profile shifted entirely to tidal: turbines, marine renewable arrays, and the broader clean energy framing of EnFAIT. This is not a contradiction but a logical progression: as wave energy commercialisation stalled globally and tidal arrays moved closer to economic viability, a specialist maritime SME would naturally pivot toward the more investment-ready branch of ocean energy.

Mojo Maritime is tracking the commercial frontier of ocean energy — they have shifted once already from wave to tidal as market readiness evolved, suggesting future collaborations will follow whichever marine renewable technology is nearest to bankable deployment.

How they like to work

Mojo Maritime participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never held the coordinator role across either H2020 project, pointing to a specialist contributor model where they provide targeted expertise rather than project leadership. Despite only two projects, they have engaged with 22 distinct partners across 7 countries, indicating they join large, diverse consortia rather than tight bilateral arrangements. This pattern suits organisations looking for a focused maritime specialist to slot into a broader Innovation Action team without needing to manage them as a lead entity.

Mojo Maritime has built a European network of 22 partners across 7 countries from just two projects — an unusually broad reach for an SME of this size, reflecting the large consortium structures typical of ocean energy Innovation Actions. Their network spans the core European marine energy nations, likely including France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Nordic countries active in this field.

What sets them apart

Mojo Maritime fills a specific gap that universities and large engineering firms rarely cover: a small, agile maritime operator with direct at-sea experience in both wave and tidal energy demonstration at full scale, located at a major UK marine energy test hub. For consortia building ocean energy Innovation Actions, they offer grounded operational knowledge — real sea conditions, grid connection logistics, LCOE realism — that desk-based research partners cannot provide. Their dual track record across both principal ocean energy technologies (wave and tidal) makes them one of very few SMEs positioned to contribute credibly to either strand.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CEFOW
  The larger of their two projects (EUR 177,517) and the more technically specific — targeting multiple full-scale WEC devices in grid-connected operation at Wave Hub, with explicit LCOE as a success metric, placing it at the applied commercialisation frontier of wave energy.
• EnFAIT
  Running until 2023, EnFAIT is the longer and more recent engagement, reflecting Mojo Maritime's pivot to tidal arrays and their participation in one of the EU's flagship tidal energy scaling projects.