SRTP welcomes establishment of marine renewable energy task force led by Scottish Energy Minister - October 2011

SRTP CEO Barry Johnston will attend a series of round table discussions, commencing on Friday 28th October, as part of a task force designed to streamline energy planning and consents for marine renewable developmemtss in Scottish waters.

The work of the group will focus on:

• Further streamlining the planning and consenting process, promoting partnership working between developers and stakeholders leading to a comprehensive pre-application engagement
• Simplifying planning and consenting advice
• Driving best practice
• Summarising current streaming activity underway
• Resourcing
• Consistency in modelling
• Better communication with industry and stakeholders
• Securing better access to data and sharing it widely

These factors will contibute towards SRTP goals of establishing a commercial array demonstation of the SRTT technology up to 30mw capacity in Scottish waters.