Cameron McNatt

Managing Director

Mocean Energy

Cameron loves the ocean, cool technology, and working with others to try to make the world a slightly better place. Since 2016, as Managing Director, he, and co-founder Chris Retzler, have led Mocean Energy developing novel ocean energy technologies with application in O&G, power for islands, and other sectors.

He has Master of Ocean Engineering from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to undertaking these post-graduate studies, Cameron worked as a naval architect writing software for ship simulations. He also has a BSc from Yale University, majoring in electrical engineering, and is a keen sailor who has crossed the Atlantic under sail.

Cameron loves the ocean, cool technology, and working with others to try to make the world a slightly better place. Since 2016, as Managing Director, he, and co-founder Chris Retzler, have led Mocean Energy developing novel ocean energy technologies with application in O&G, power for islands, and other sectors.

He has Master of Ocean Engineering from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to undertaking these post-graduate studies, Cameron worked as a naval architect writing software for ship simulations. He also has a BSc from Yale University, majoring in electrical engineering, and is a keen sailor who has crossed the Atlantic under sail.

Renewables for Subsea Power

In April 2024, Mocean Energy completed 13.5 months of continuous testing our Blue X wave energy converter (WEC) as part of the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) project. The testing, which took place in the North Sea off Orkney, demonstrated continuous power and communications performance, operations and maintenance, reliability and survivability of our device, which also successfully weathered several major storms.

The project was unique in that it was highly collaborative involving several technology partners: Mocean Energy, Verlume, Transmark Subsea, Baker Hughes and customers, Shell - Marine Renewable Program, TotalEnergies, PTTEP, Harbour Energy and Serica Energy, who funded the project alongside the Net Zero Technology Centre, with further support given by Wave Energy Scotland. The partners worked together over year several years to design, build and deploy not just a WEC, but a complete autonomous power and communications system – Blue X provided power and relayed a comms signal to the subsea batteries (Verlume), a subsea control module (Baker Hughes) and resident autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) (Transmark Subsea). The RSP project helps to pave the way for the use of ocean energy in the Blue Economy, and Mocean Energy are currently working to develop similar projects in Australia.

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