Scotland wins, Northern Ireland loses, in UK marine estimate

Scotland’s claim to the driver’s seat within the UK’s emerging marine renewables sector has been strengthened by a new Crown Estate report confirming the vast gap between Scotland’s potential future capacity compared to other countries in the UK.

The discrepancy is even more acute if tidal-barrage projects – such as the controversial Severn Barrage scheme proposed for the Severn Estuary – are removed from the equation.

Taken together, England and Wales are deemed to have 75.7GW of potential capacity for wave and tidal – but that figure falls to less than 41GW if tidal-barrage technology is deleted from the picture.

Despite a burst of publicity earlier this year when a senior Labour Party official resigned his front-bench role to lobby for the Severn Barrage – backed by the Corlan Log in to read complete article.

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