British Government Expresses Interest in Marine Energy
GALWAY, IRELAND--March 8, 2010--Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--Marine energy companies could be looking at a profitable future in the United Kingdom as the government has launched its first large-scale investigation into the renewable energy potential of the country's wave and tidal resources. The government's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the first full investigation into the potential of marine energy in the U.K. RenewableUK (London, England) estimates that up to 2 gigawatts of marine energy could be installed by 2020.