The giant 398MW MeyGen tidal power project currently taking shape off Scotland will be “pivotal” to the industrialisation of Britain’s marine renewable energy (MRE) sector, according to a new review by UK government-industry technology development body the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).

From a recently completed ten-year retrospective on the country's MRE industry, the ETI states recommends the UK government  "focus on exploiting tidal stream technology commercially", given the technology’s ability to “compete with other low-carbon energy sources” in coming decades, rather than other higher cost MRE sectors including tidal lagoons and wave power.

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