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What do you see as the key hurdles to bring tidal power to utility scale?

I think ? rst is the public acceptance, the social license, especially within the Bay of Fundy. Hopefully we can bring long-lasting economic bene? t back to that area. It’s not like what’s happening in the North Sea, where the (oil and gas) resources are going to one day run out and then the industry is going to wind down and people are going to be look- ing for jobs. I think people have got to understand it’s a long-term play, but it’s hard yards to get there. It’s going to require support and once you start deploying at scale, costs are going to come down. We’ve seen that with off- shore wind. But you’ve got to get to deployment at scale and make it meaningful.

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