Throughout the 2000s, the emerging wave and tidal stream energy industries operated as a unit. Together they embarked on the journey across the 'valley of death' towards commercial maturity, facing shared challenges - such as grid connection, permitting and securing R&D support. Nowhere has this alliance been more apparent than in the UK, the leading marine energy market globally - and a market fortunate enough to possess significant wave and tidal resources. Working together, wave and tidal developers realised that collectively they could speak with a louder voice in support of their common interests. Although Scotland has offered differentiated revenue support to wave and tidal in the past, at the UK level policymakers have largely treated them equally.
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