EUROPE SEES ECONOMIC BOOM IN BLUE ENERGY

EC ocean energy plan ‘could create 20,000 UK jobs’

Frank Urquhart, 21 January 2014 (The Scotsman)

“The European Commission has unveiled a new action plan for the fledgling renewable ocean energy sector in Europe, which could create up to 20,000 jobs in the UK in the next two decades…The drive to harness Europe’s ‘blue energy’ potential is to be led by the establishment of an Ocean Energy Forum, and Scotland’s Energy Minister…claimed that Scotland would have a major role to play in the Commission’s renewable energy initiative…A European Commission spokesman said…[o]cean energy has the potential to create [an estimated 10,500 - 26,500 new, high-quality permanent jobs and up to 14,000 temporary jobs by 2035, including 20,000 in the UK and 18,000 in France]…The term ‘ocean energy’ covers all technologies to harvest renewable energy from seas and oceans, except offshore wind…” click here for more

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