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utILIty WeeK | 28th February - 6th March 2014 | 5 A Northern Ireland tidal energy plant has been awarded a grant of more than £500,000 from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc). Marine energy company Minesto and partners IT Power and the National Physical Laboratory have been given funding to extend the quarter-scale ocean trials of the Deep Green tidal current power plant in Strangford Lough. The funding, made available in the second round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, will validate the plant's commercial performance. enerGy GIB forms £50m energy efficiency alliance The UK Green Investment Bank has joined forces with Societe Gen- erale Equipment Finance to provide £50 million of finance for energy efficiency projects. Each institution is committing £25 million to the fund. The first project to benefit from the partnership is at Rampton Hospital where £5 million will finance the installation of a combined heat and power plant, dual fuel boilers, biomass boilers, and an effluent treatment plant. Plugged in LinkedIn poll Will CCS ever become a reality? Mathew Beech, Utility Week "Nuclear installations are uninsurable in normal commercial terms. Only gullible governments can bear the enormous risk" Labour MP Paul Flynn Number of years for which wind turbines can remain productive, according to research by Imperial College business School How attractive the UK is as a country for renewable energy investors, according to a ranking by EY. See page 19 25 5th The dip in Centrica's 2013 profits. See analysis, p20 2% 7% Drop in Iberdrola's 2013 profits. See p20 "The regulations do not specify how many birds a windfarm is allowed to kill" A Decc official comments on the decision by Dong Energy, Eon and Abu Dhabi state-owned energy investor Masdar to abandon phase two of the London Array. See p16 Yes 12% 37% 50% No Only if it receives substantial funding