Looking forward we find that the respective costs of these different ocean energy

technologies remain a significant barrier to deployment. Innovation will be key to

reducing and efforts will need to focus on sub-component (e.g. power take off,
prime mover, control systems), component integration and array optimisation RD&D.
In addition, various socio-economic, infrastructural and environmental barriers
also need to be addressed such as developing supportive energy market conditions,
delivering facilitative infrastructure, providing grid connection, growing supply
chains and mitigating against associated environmental impacts.