Wave and tidal power plans
The Crown Estate has announced the successful bidders for the world’s first commercial wave and tidal leasing round at 10 sites in Scotland’s Pentland Firth and Orkney waters.
The successful bids have been selected from 42 applications put forward by 20 developers wishing to install commercial-scale energy generators in Scottish waters.
The 1.2GW of installed capacity proposed by the wave and tidal energy developers for 2020 — 600MW each from wave and tidal — is claimed to be four times the peak output of Dounreay power station; providing enough electricity to meet the needs of up to 750,000 homes.
The developers have signed Agreements for Lease with the Crown Estate to take forward the development of their wave and tidal energy installations. According to the Crown Estate, this will allow developers to enter the statutory consenting process for their sites with security of access to the seabed.
Alex Salmond
Successful wave bids include Aquamarine Power and SSE Renewables Developments, which have been granted leases to develop 200MW for the Brough Head site; and Pelamis Wave Power, which will work with E.ON on two 50MW projects in West Orkney as well as a separate 50MW project at Armadale.
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