Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent research her Department has conducted on energy produced from wave power.

The 2012’s Crown Estate UK Wave and Tidal Key Resource Areas study [1] assessed the UK’s theoretical resource for wave energy at 69TWh/year (27 GW).

The Technology Innovation Needs Assessment (TINA) [2] published in 2012 estimated that wave energy could practically deliver 40-50 TWh/year by 2050. The department is currently working on reviewing the TINAs and a refreshed wave energy TINA is likely to be published later this year.

[1] http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/5476/uk-wave-and-tidal-key-resource-areas-project.pdf

[2] http://www.lowcarboninnovation.co.uk/working_together/technology_focus_areas/marine/.