As you said, my company is operating in Canada, France, Japan, and the U.K., and nobody is taking the same approach. In terms of policy and regulatory framework, a different instrument has been used in those jurisdictions, and sometimes more emphasis is put on commercialization as well. I spoke about the French model where significant investment has been made in port infrastructures that not only enable the tidal industry to get tidal projects going, but the offshore wind industry to invest in those locations as well. That's one of the models we can see in France.
In the U.K. some funding mechanisms supports have been quite comparable to what is done in Nova Scotia for tidal. Nova Scotia has a feed-in tariff for the development of tidal at this early stage. Maybe the slight difference we have between Canada and the U.K. is that they've bet on the issuance of long-term leases for development of pre-commercial or commercial rates. One developer can get up to 100 to 200 megawatts of consent to get his development going throughout the year. That's a type of visibility that is given to the developers or the technology providers or the site leasers.
When it comes to Japan it's a bit different. It's solely a government initiative to do a demonstration project, which is quite isolated at this stage and funded by the government. That's a different model and at a very early stage right now.
I hope that responds to your question.