Weekly Intelligence Brief
Alex Salmond meets executives in France
26 February 2010
First Minister Alex Salmond recently met with senior executives from France’s energy industries and the country’s Minister for European Affairs.
The First Minister held a round-table meeting of French energy company executives to outline the opportunities - in innovation, production, supply-chain and delivery - in Scotland’s growing renewables sector, including the Saltire Prize challenge to advance wave and tidal power technologies.
Salmond urged the executives to seize the “unprecedented” opportunities to develop renewables and carbon capture & storage off Scotland’s coast.
He highlighted that Scottish waters provide the potential to generate up to one-quarter of the continent’s tidal power and one-tenth of its wave power.
“The marine renewables industry needs a continuous flow of new ideas to fully flourish. The European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney provides the world’s only accredited test facility for wave and tidal energy devices and we have announced plans to further promote advances in these technologies with a global innovation award, the £10 million Saltire Prize,” he said.
Salmond also welcomed the decision of French energy engineering and construction company Technip to locate its North Sea offshore renewables head office in Aberdeen.
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