Marine Renewables Deployment Fund Greg Clark To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, column 1379W, on Marine Renewables Deployment Fund, which projects are being supported by the Marine Renewable Deployment Fund; and how much the Fund has provided for each such project in each year since the Fund was established. Mr. Mike O'Brien A breakdown of funds provided and in each financial year for the six research related projects and one infrastructure project supported by the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund since the Fund was established is given as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Contractor |Description |2006-07|2007-08|2008-09|Total | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Edinburgh University |Wave energy device performance assessment protocol |25,000 |— |— |25,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Edinburgh University |Tidal current device performance assessment protocol |22,000 |— |— |22,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EMEC Ltd. |Draft performance measurement standard for tidal stream devices|— |24,000 |10,000 |34,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EMEC Ltd. |Rewrite of wave performance testing standard |— |— |11,000 |11,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EMEC Infrastructure |EMEC wave facility |197,000|— |— |197,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EMEC Infrastructure |EMEC tidal facility (incl. extension) |634,000|300,000|— |934,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Sustainable Development Commission|SDC Tidal Study |— |132,000|— |132,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hartley Anderson Ltd. |W&T environmental research |— |235,000|725,000|960,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total | |878,000|691,000|747,000|2,315,000| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------