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Wave and tidal energy: state of the industry

Abstract

ClimateXChange commissioned this report with the following objectives:

  • To better understand the current state of the UK marine energy industry
  • To chart recent activity in the sector (e.g. development of new components and subsystems; demonstration of single devices; deployment of first arrays; involvement of utilities and large engineering firms)
  • To investigate the deployment pipeline and the market
  • To explore policy initiatives, political signals from the UK Government and devolved administrations and the availability of market pull instruments.
  • To set UK development in the context of global activity (taking into consideration the availability of market pull instruments and incentives in other countries)