But he also says: "It is a shame for the international wave-energy sector because to have a vibrant and successful industry you need thesetesting facilities, and it has to be based on a long-term strategy and long-term effort." The good news, though, is that PG&E is surveying a site for an array-scale project off the Santa Barbara coast.
Conditions must be right for us to catch the wave
Word from the US that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) haspulled the plug on its highly anticipated Humboldt WaveConnect wave-testing hub set alarm bells ringing in many corners of the marine renewables community. But scuppering the project is - as PG&E is at pains to point out - more a result of hefty upfront capital costs and challenges with permits at state and federal levels than a judgment on the state of the wave-energy sector.
9 December 2010 23:00 GMT
Updated
25 November 2012 15:15 GMT
