Dr. Peter Heffernan:

The sites I mentioned are the test sites. The quarter scale test site is just off Spiddal in Galway Bay. Early stage developments are to be tested relatively inexpensively and in an area that is secure and around which there is much instrumentation. We operate that in conjunction with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

If one imagines the life cycle, one would work with the engineers, designers and architects in the centre in Cork. People bring their own ideas and they evolve. A test model is built and tested in a wave tank. It is then exposed in a model system to all the forces that might be experienced. The next stage is to get investors involved to bring the development to a quarter scale. That is tested in Galway Bay. The grid-connected site is just to the north west of Belmullet. As I understand it, that is to be developed in the next 18 months. They are the two test sites.