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In the Northern Ireland (NI) offshore renewables leasing round for October 2012, agreements include:
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Lease with Tidal Ventures Limited (Open Hydro Group and Bord Gais) for 100MW tidal scheme at Torr
Head.
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Lease with a consortium comprising Cork based DP Marine Energy Limited and the Belgian marine
engineering company DEME Blue Energy for their 100 MW tidal stream energy project off Fair Head.
There are still some interest by private consortium groups in harnessing the power from the Severn estuary
by means of a tidal barrage. In summer 2012, a newly formed Hafren Power Consortium (formerly Corlan
Hafren) confirm to the UK Government their outline proposal for a Severn Barrage. The proposal will
need to be further developed and demonstrate strong evidence that it is viable against the criteria of
value for money, economic benefits, energy saving and environmental impact mitigation before the UK
Government can consider its value. In the light of recent interest in the Severn Barrage, the Energy and
Climate Change (ECC) Committee launched an enquiry with a call for evidence on the proposed Severn
Barrage on 30 October (http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/
energy-and-climate-change-committee/news/severn-barrage-call-for-ev/). The ECC enquiry is expected to
conclude early in the new year.
In November RegenSW published a document on alternatives for harnessing energy from the Bristol Channel/
Severn Estuary (http://www.regensw.co.uk/news/2012/11/27/media-release---bristol-channel-has-massiverenewable-energy-potential)
suggesting a combination of lagoons and tidal stream devices.
Planned Deployment:
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TGL (ReDAPT) 1MW tidal device (to be deployed in Dec 2012)
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Tidal Electric Limited DeltaStream 1.2MW tidal device at Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire in Wales to be
deployed in 2013
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AWS Ocean Energy AWS-III 1.25MW wave device (In planning)
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Seatricity wave energy converter to be deployed at EMEC
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Bluewater /Ponte di Archimede 1MW device to be deployed at EMEC around 2013/14
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Marine Current Turbine (MCT) have plans to deploy a 10MW pre-commercial array at Skerries, Anglesey
for 2014.
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MCT plans to deploy 8MW tidal farm at Kyle Rhea in Scotland by 2014
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Minesto to deploy 3kW Deep Green Ocean Kite in Strangford Lough, NI (to be deployed).
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Voith Hydro HyTide1000-16 1MW (to be deployed).
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Voith Wavegen 4MW wave device, Siadar, Scotland (to be deployed).
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries 1MW tidal turbine to be deployed around 2014/15 at EMEC.
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Pulse Tidal to deploy 1.2MW device with grid connection off Lynmouth starting in 2014.
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Joint project between Pelamis and Aegir Vattenfall for a 10MW wave farm in the Shetland in Scotland to
commence in 2016.
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Scottish Renewables to build a 10MW tidal array scheme using Andritz Hammerfest 1000 tidal turbines
in the Sound of Islay between the Scottish island of Islay and Jura. First installation in 2013 with full project
running by 2015.
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Meygen continue development on their planned 85MW Phase 1 deployment in the Inner Sound, Scotland.
This will be phased in a 20MW followed by a 65MW deployment (timings tbc).
ANNUAL
REPORT 2012