The following article is an op-ed piece from CorPower Ocean, UK Marine Energy Council, Ocean Energy Europe and Professor Henry Jeffrey, Head of Policy and Innovation Group, University of Edinburgh.As an island
The following article is an op-ed piece from CorPower Ocean, UK Marine Energy Council, Ocean Energy Europe and Professor Henry Jeffrey, Head of Policy and Innovation Group, University of Edinburgh.
As an island nation with more than 11,000 miles of coastline, the UK sits beside one of the most powerful, and most overlooked renewable energy resources on Earth: ocean waves. Offshore wind has dominated Britain’s clean‑energy identity for decades, but wave power is no longer a distant prospect.
It is now a proven, deployable technology whose moment has arrived. Across Europe, full-scale demonstrations have now fed reliable electricity into national grids, created skilled jobs in coastal communities, and strengthened industrial capability that any forward‑thinking nation should want to anchor at home.
Recent shocks in global energy markets make the case for wave power even stronger. Once again, geopolitical tensions have sent oil and gas prices soaring, reverberating through the UK economy – raising fuel costs, feeding inflation, and forcing governments to intervene.
The memory of the £27 billion “Energy Price Guarantee,” introduced in the wake of the war in Ukraine, should still sting. Urgency for change has been recently underscored by the CCC’s, Climate Change Committee’s, new report
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