Saltire Prize Regional Locational Guidance Areas (Waves)

On 16 March 2010, The Crown Estate announced successful bidders for lease agreements for wave and tidal leases with a potential capacity of up to 1,200 MW in the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters. This followed a competitive leasing round for demonstration and commercial scale project sites which saw considerable interest from industry. The Pentland Firth and Orkney waters is the first area to be made available for commercial-scale development of wave and tidal energy in Scotland and indeed the whole of the UK. The projects are believed to represent the largest planned development of wave and tidal energy worldwide. Remaining areas are demonstration sites used for demonstration of technology purposes only. Based on this information Marine Scotland established areas of interest for wave power.

This layer shows areas of interest identified by Marine Scotland for wave power in support of the Scottish Government Saltire Prize.