There has been a call for a bigger role from the oil and gas industry in the development of marine power. It is being said the industry has the skills needed to help Scotland achieve the generation of a gigawatt of electricity - enough for 570,000 homes.
A report by news.bbc.co.uk quoted Jason Ormiston, chief executive of Scottish Renewables as saying: "We want to raise the profile of the renewables industry and show it is going places. The oil and gas sector has the skills for developing wave and tidal power."
Ormiston added that the industry works in a similar environment off Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.
"The sector understands what the challenges are and they are significant," said Ormiston.
In the same report, Morag McCorkindale, chief operating officer at Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group, said many Aberdeen-based oil and gas companies were already actively involved in green power projects across Europe.
Sarah Dolman of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said Scotland needed to conduct a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of areas of the sea and coast not covered by a UK Government-led SEA.
She said this would help to identify the needs of oil and gas, renewables, shipping and fishing and consider any threats to habitats.
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