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Tuesday 16th March 2010 Sea power award imminent
The Crown Estate, owners of the seabed around the UK, is poised to
announce the successful companies who have bid to develop sea power
off the coast of Scotland. The plans to generate electricity from wave
and tidal energy from the Pentland Firth and the sea around Orkney
have been submitted by rival firms. First Minister Alex Salmond
described Scotland as the Saudi Arabia of marine power claiming it had
huge potential for renewable power generation.

Complex legal paperwork and negotiations were said to be on schedule
at Crown Estates. Leases will soon be granted to companies to start
installing the necessary equipment to harness marine power off the
coast of Scotland. Orkneys

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