Tidal Power: Wind Power
(asked on 24th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s report Cost Reduction Pathway of Tidal Stream Energy in the UK and France, published on 17 October, whether they plan to extend the proposed streamlining of planning legislation for offshore wind to tidal stream energy.
Answered by
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 7th November 2022
The energy National Policy Statements are being updated to include Tidal Stream generation. Details will be published in due course with an annex for Tidal Range which indicates what a well-developed project proposal entails, to aid developers in their planning process.