Government squandering ￡42m renewables funding

摘要

The Government has failed to spend any of the ￡42m budget it has allocated for the development of wave and tidal energy technologies, figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. Parliamentary questions found that: 1. The entire ￡42m budget for the Wave and Tidal-stream Energy Demonstration Scheme - the Government's measure for allowing marine technologies to progress through their early phase -has remained unspent since it was announced in 2004