By 2020, the 1.2GW of installed capacity at the 10 sites leased by the Crown Estate yesterday will be four times the peak output of Dounreay, and sufficient to meet the needs of up to 750,000 homes.
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Scotland is set to realise potential as ‘Saudi Arabia of marine power’
After decades of rhetoric, developers have finally been given the green light to generate electricity from the power of the waves and tides around the north of Scotland and Orkney on a commercial scale.
