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Wave and tidal technology developers have been invited to bid for £22mn in new g ...

Wave and tidal technology developers have been invited to bid for £22mn in new government funding to accelerate the commercial development of marine energy in the UK. The Marine Renewables Proving Fund, announced in July as part of the Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy, will be designed and delivered by the Carbon Trust and will provide finance for the demonstration of wave and tidal technologies. The funding follows demand from industry and analysis by the Carbon Trust which has shown that extra support is needed to takemarine devices successfully from initial prototype development through to early stage commercial generation, where they become eligible for funding from the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund. Separately, the Carbon Trust is to support two marine energy devices in a bid to accelerate their commercial development. Projects to be supported through the Marine Energy Accelerator - Pelamis Wave Power and Marine Current Turbines - will focus on installation and maintenance, which currently account for up to 50% of the project costs of wave and tidal energy and could delay more widespread deployment if not reduced. Reliably moving a 180 metre Pelamis electricity-generating ‘sea snake’ onto a mooring many kilometres offshore is a task that highlights the challenges of making marine energy commercially viable. The Carbon Trust and Pelamis Wave Power are investigating an innovative remotely-operated vehicle that will assist with manoeuvring these giant machines into position. The Trust is also supporting a project with Marine Current Turbines to develop an innovative way to deploy its pioneering SeaGen tidal energy system. The new method will involve a remotely-operated subsea drilling platform which will install foundation piles in advance of the main turbine support structure being deployed in a single unit. This would enable smaller and less expensive support vessels to be used for the offshore works.
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