Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase export opportunities for the wave and tidal renewables sector while maintaining the existing high levels of UK supply chain content.
The Government has a long history of supporting the development and deployment of wave and tidal stream technologies in the UK. To date, we have provided sustained and targeted support enabling the wave and tidal stream sectors to move from initial concept onto prototypes and now the first arrays. There are a number of UK companies pushing innovation in the blue energy sector domestically and internationally, including in partnership with UK low carbon development programmes in Indonesia, and with commercial opportunity support from DIT and SDI to export UK companies’ tidal technology.