Tidal Energy Limited wins £390,000 Carbon Trust grant

August 10, 2011  |   Local News,Renewable Energy,Welsh News   |     |   0 Comment

The Carbon Trust has awarded £390,000 to Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) to fund environmental work at its Ramsey Sound demonstration site in Wales.  The grant was issued under the CT’s entrepreneur’s fast track programme. TEL said it pledged to make environmental assessment data available to the wider marine energy industry and it hopes the work will help the Welsh sector to grow.

TEL development director Chris Williams said: “The Welsh Government believes that the deployment of tidal and wave devices off the nation’s 1200km coastline could provide as much as 4GW of clean, predictable electricity by as early as 2025. This represents a huge opportunity but in order to achieve this goal, we must understand more about how devices interact with the marine environment