The new leases, mostly in Scotland, include Marine Current Turbines’ (MCT) Skerries tidal project off Anglesey, North Wales, and a proposed development by Pelamis Wave Power in the Scottish Western Isles, both of 10MW.

MCT plans to site up to nine of its SeaGen tidal devices in an area between the Skerries group of rocks and islands and Carmel Head, about 1km off the Anglesey coast.

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