Dr. Peter Heffernan:

In Strangford Lough in the North they have a full testing facility for tidal energy and it is deployed and operational at the moment. We will provide the committee with the report. A report was done to map out the potential capturable energy for wave, wind and tidal energy. The area I am familiar with is wave and tidal energy. A number of areas would have potential in those regards.

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