Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Annual Report 2011: Discussion with Marine Institute

2:40 pm

Dr. Peter Heffernan:

We operate and work closely with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in the development of the plan for ocean energy development. We operate a quarter scale wave energy device testing site in Galway Bay. That site will be broadband cabled and will become an ocean observation site next year. We also work with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources on the development of the full-scale test site off the coast at Belmullet. The site surveys have been done and that site has been designated for a grid connected, full-scale energy device testing centre.