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World’s biggest ‘wave farm’ in crisis as RWE npower pulls out

German utility firm RWE npower renewables has withdrawn its backing for the world's largest "wave farm", throwing the future of the 4MW facility in doubt, the Sunday Herald can reveal.

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Lewis setback is latest in a string of cancelled schemes and casts doubt on future of wave and tidal power in Scotland By Colin Donald, Business Editor

RWE npower renewables’s decision to abandon the project at Siadar Bay off the north coast of Isle of Lewis leaves Inverness firm Wavegen, developers of the world’s first commercial-scale wave energy device the Limpet, seeking a new developer or owner of the projected £30 million Hebridean scheme.