The winners of the Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF) include two wave-energy firms: Pelamis and Aquamarine Power; and four tidal firms: Marine Current Turbines (MCT), Atlantis Resources, Hammerfest Strøm and Voith Hydro.
Only the first three are based in the UK, with the final three coming from Australia, Norway and Germany respectively.
The government unveiled the MRPF in June 2009 as part of its Renewable Energy Strategy, in part to quiet the controversy that had arisen surrounding yet another acronym – the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund (MRDF).
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