The marine environment offers some of the greatest potential for renewable energy
generation in the UK - wave-energy devices and tidal power installations add to
the potential for offshore wind which is already being exploited.
The British Isles are at the edge of the Atlantic and are exposed to some of
the most energetic waves and tidal currents in the world. This makes us well placed
to utilise marine technology to maximum effect and subsequently exploit wider international
markets.
The UK has a global lead in marine renewable technologies. The Research Councils
UK Energy Programme has been key to this, recently investing £7.7 million, this
includes the £5.5 million
marine energy
SUPERGEN consortium led by Edinburgh University.
The National Oceanography
Centre Southampton (NOCS) conducts wave climate research in the North Atlantic
and British shelf seas, and this is valuable for assessing the available resource
for wave energy and some of the risks for all offshore installations, including
wave and offshore wind.
We are also supporting a further three projects that are working in collaboration
with a number of industrial partners such as CD Adapco and Pelamis Wave Power Ltd
and we are collaborating with other funding agencies such as the Energy Technologies
Institute and the Technology Strategy Board in order to push marine technology through
to deployment.
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