Renewable Energy: Seas and Oceans

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform written question – answered at on 12 June 2008.

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Photo of Lembit Öpik Lembit Öpik Shadow Minister (Housing), Department for Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether he has commissioned research into the potential siting of generators which capture energy from very large ocean swell; and if he will make a statement.

Photo of Malcolm Wicks Malcolm Wicks Minister of State (Energy), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform

The Department has published detailed information on the UK's wave energy resource in the "Atlas of UK Marine Renewable Energy Resources: A Strategic Environmental Assessment Report, March 2008". This can be accessed on the Department's Strategic Environmental Assessment website at:

http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info .php?categoryID=21&documentedID=25

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