TeraWatt
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TeraWatt is a £1m project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through its Marine Challenge Fund. The project formally began on 22nd February 2012 and will run for 36 months. The project will develop sophisticated computer models designed to help streamline the licencing of wave and tidal energy devices by minimising their impacts on the marine environment.
The TeraWatt consortium will work closely with marine renewables developers and regulators throughout the project which has been designed to specifically respond to the needs of Marine Scotland Science, the organisation responsible for providing scientific advice to the licensing authority. Scotland has substantial wave and tidal energy resources and is at the forefront of the development of marine renewable technologies and ocean energy exploitation. The next phase will see these wave and tidal devices deployed in arrays, with many sites being developed. Although developers have entered into agreements with The Crown Estate for seabed leases, all projects remain subject to licensing requirements under the Marine Scotland Act (2010) |