§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Energy in which parts of the country the Government are concentrating their research on wave energy; and if preliminary findings indicate those parts of the country with the greatest potential.
§ Mr. EadieExperimental work on wave energy is being carried out at the following centres: Edinburgh University, the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride, the University of Lancaster, Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, the British Hovercraft Corporation test facilities on the Isle of Wight, the Hydraulics Research Station at Wallingford and the Marchwood Engineering Laboratories of the Central Electricity Generating Board at Southampton.
The most promising coastal areas for eventual exploitation are indicated in the study commissioned by Government from the National Engineering Laboratory and now published by them. These run along 310W a line parallel to the Outer Hebrides and north to the Shetland Islands, along a line between Fraserburg and Wick, and in the South-Western Approaches on each side of the Cornish peninsula.