Thefunding, up for grabs as part of the third round of the 'Waters' research anddevelopment scheme, aims to move “leading” marine energy devices to commercialroll-out, while giving a fillip to Scottish supply chain companies to capture alarger share of the emerging UK, European and global wave and tidal sectormarkets.

“Weare at the forefront of developing offshore and low carbon energy generationtechnology with some of the world’s greatest wind, wave and tidal resourcesheavily concentrated in the waters around our country,” states energy ministerFergus Ewing.

“Thislatest