Wave Energy Scotland has launched a new £3 million fund to help developers come up with new materials for wave power generators which can withstand rough seas – and thereby discover a commercially-viable method of harvesting Scotland’s huge potential wave-power resource. The quango – set up to salvage the best know-how from the collapse of hitherto private-sector Scottish wave power industry – is offering developers up to £250,000 apiece to investigate the suitability of alternative materials for use in the wave energy sector.
Scottish Energy News 19th July 2016 read more »