The Highlands and Islands has been seen as a prime location for wind, wave and tidal power projects.
Plans for a 20 megawatt wave power project on the north west coast of Lewis have been shelved.
The research by the University of Liverpool found that the seabirds fed in nine areas earmarked for tidal, wind or wave power developments.
He sees a wave of consolidation ahead as weaker players in power generation liquidate and put desirable assets up for sale.
David Weaver, the chief executive of Oceanlinx, one of the firms planning to use the Wave Hub, argues that Britain's liberalised and transparent power markets make life easier for newcomers, although others argue that fluctuating power prices make planning tricky.
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But making green off blue power soon proved to be so much California dreaming as plans for West Coast wave energy arrays sank under opposition from surfers, fishermen and local residents.
The heat wave that roasted much of the country for more than a week left scores dead and millions without power at one point -- many of them following a round of severe storms that swept the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29.
However Alt-J's experimental art-rock album An Awesome Wave and London singer Jessie Ware's debut Devotion have been tipped for success by rival bookmakers Paddy Power.
Subsidies for renewable energy will be rejigged in the hope of encouraging technologies, such as solar or wave power, that are not yet competitive.
Over the next year or two, offshore wind power pioneers will begin rolling out a fleet of 5 to 8 megawatt wind turbines for the coming wave of offshore developments.
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