The grants from the Wave and Tidal Energy: Research, Development and Demonstration Support fund (WATERS) will help develop emerging energy technologies and improve the operation of marine renewables devices.

Five marine energy projects will share £13 million to harness the power of the sea. Grants have been awarded to:

• RWE npower – to support construction of one of the world's largest wave stations, the ten turbine, 4 MW Siadar project off the Western Isles - £6 million
• Aquamarine Power – to support demonstration of Aquamarine’s Oyster 3 project at the  European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney -  £3.15 million
• OpenHydro - support for a power conversion / control system to deliver a cost effective method of connecting marine energy devices in arrays, an important step towards commercialisation - £1.92 million
• AWS Ocean Energy - to support tests in Loch Ness and the Cromarty Firth of AWS’s wave energy converter, sections of which would join together to form the device’s ‘doughnut’ shape - £1.39 million
• Ocean Flow Energy - Build and deploy the ‘Evopod’, a 25 kilowatt floating grid connected tidal energy turbine at Sanda Sound in South Kintyre - £560,000. 

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