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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2022
S6W-10724
For example: £5 million provided through the Saltire Tidal Energy Challenge Fund to support tidal energy innovation and deployment.£18.25 million funding to support the current Wave Energy Scotland technology programme, the biggest wave energy technology development programme in the world. £10 million hydrogen innovation scheme under the Emerging Energy Technologies Fund, which will focus on innovation in hydrogen production, storage and distribution technology.£75 million Just Transition fund to support the energy sector, including testing and promoting emerging technologies such as EV battery recycling technology, offshore green hydrogen and commissioning.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 September 2021
Energy Policy - Subject Profile - Large Scale Generation
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/contracts-for-difference-cfd-allocation-round-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/contracts-for-difference-cfd-allocation-round-4</a> [accessed 3 August 2021]. CfD funding has been set out in ‘Pots’ which group the technologies that can compete:
Pot 1 is "established technologies" including Onshore wind, Solar Photovoltaic (PV), Energy from Waste with combined heat and power (CHP), Hydro, Landfill Gas and Sewage Gas
Pot 2 is "less established technologies" including Offshore Wind, Remote Island Wind (added for 2019 auction), Anaerobic Digestion, Wave, Tidal Stream, and Geothermal.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 March 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 27 March 2025
(S6O-04505) Over the past 10 years, the Scottish Government has invested around £50 million in marine technology development through the funding of Wave Energy Scotland. The growth of a world-leading marine renewables industry in this country has resulted in Scotland being internationally recognised as a global frontrunner in wave energy and home to the world’s first and largest tidal stream array and the largest tidal energy converter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2022
S6W-10723
To ask the Scottish Government what commitments it has given to support Scotland’s wave and tidal energy sector.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 March 2021
Blue Carbon - Threats
Studies examining the current and future effect of climate change on Scottish marine ecosystems are ongoing.
Figure 32. Key threats to Scotland's blue carbon habitats and stores
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2026
S6W-43885
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 March 2018
The Scottish Crown Estate Bill - Finance
This sum is then paid by the Treasury out of funds raised by general taxation3Crown Estate Scotland. (2018).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 March 2026
S6W-44091
On 25 February, I wrote to the Chief Executive of GBE to request a meeting to specifically discuss how the organisation can support the development of wave and tidal stream energy in Scotland.
Last updated:
29 September 2026
20260928 PCS Scotland to PSRC
Its remit is to foster the development of wave energy technology in Scotland. It was recognised in 2014 that Scotland has a strategic interest in funding wave energy technology research and development.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
Scotland’s electricity infrastructure: inhibitor or enabler of our energy ambitions? - Creating the infrastructure
We also ask the Scottish Government to respond to industry views that there is a currently a skills gap in Scotland, with not enough people with the right skills to work on the pipeline of renewable and transmission projects that will be needed to decarbonise the energy sector by 2045.
