Abstract
A Funding Grant was awarded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in January 2017 to demonstrate a grid-connected tidal energy array at a real-world tidal energy site, propelling tidal energy towards competing on a commercial basis with alternative renewable sources of energy generation – Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT). This was in response to the call LCE-15-2016: Scaling up in the ocean energy sector to arrays to generate significant learning through demonstration of cost-effective tidal arrays.