As Phil says, “It’s not often I agree with Alex Salmonds…but ROAR!” He’s talking about this: ‘Milestone’ for wave energy plans .

Wave energy has go to be the way forward – especially for us in the UK. It doesn’t have nearly as many detractors as other renewables seem to – probably because it’s not noisy, it’s more reliable, it doesn’t take up too much space, and the only people whose fun is spoilt by it are surfers, who are a fairly green lot anyway. Even WWF doesn’t seem to mind judging by the quotation in the article (and weirdly it’s always the groups like that who whinge about these things the most – like Greenpeace’s curiously wrongheaded attitude to nuclear power for example, or the RSPB’s opposition to the Severn barrage).

1.2 Gw doesn’t sound like a huge amount but it’s a pretty good start. If 1.2GW is actually achieved then that’s about a fiftieth of the UK’s demand at peak time, which is currently around 60GW. Good luck the Scots.