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LEGAL ADVICE


further support is needed to capitalise on the huge strides that have been made over the past few years. The UK Government threw away a big chance to signal continued support to the sector and facilitate actual deployment when it dropped the minima available to marine projects in the most recent CfD auction.


LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL So the industry can be disappointed, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. It is clear that wave & tidal still occupies the mind of Government and is specifically mentioned in the recent Clean Growth Strategy. The Government has recognised in that strategy that wave, tidal stream and tidal range could have a roll in the long term decarbonisation in the UK, but as one might expect they look to offshore wind and ask that these wave & tidal technologies demonstrate how they can compete with other forms of generation going forward.


That is probably a fair question, but the Government should not forget that offshore wind benefitted from the RO funding and the development and


learnings from onshore turbines which has led to it being able to deploy in scale over a decade before its great success in bringing costs down. If wave & tidal is given the chance to test and deploy the first arrays could we not expect the same?


The industry is resilient but might the UK miss out once again, having put in all the hard yards to establish the basis of a lucrative industry? More than ever before, the Government has linked decarbonisation to the UK’s Industrial Strategy and the UK’s future prosperity. The Clean Growth Strategy itself states that the clean growth progress “has altered the way that we see many of the trade-offs between investing in low carbon technologies that help secure our future, but that might incur costs today”. If ever there was a time for Westminster to renew its support and continue to invest in this low carbon technology it is now.


SECTOR ACTION


For its part, the sector not only needs to show a path to cost reduction but has to continue to demonstrate the huge benefits there will be to the UK


ENERGY MARINE ENERGY PROFILE


economy through wave & tidal energy and the industrial opportunities it has already started to create. By doing so it will be a real test of whether the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy is just warm words.


Ross Fairley


Head of Renewable Energy Burges Salmon


www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk


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