The new development will incorporate the European Marine Energy Centre (Emec), where front-running devices – including wave machines such as the Pelamis P2 and Aquamarine Power’s Oyster, and Andritz Hydro Hammerfest’s HS1000 tidal turbine – are being run in nine of the facility’s 14 full-scale test berths.

The site is in a swathe of water that overlaps the world’s first commercial-scale leasing round for marine energy.

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