The first tidal power plant in Korea has been completed at Jindo Island, South Jeolla Province. The development is called the Uldolmok Power Plant and has been completed four years after its ground-breaking at a cost of $10 million.
The 1,000-kilowatt plant will produce 2.4 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually. Power capacity will be expanded to 90,000 [...]
A new tidal turbine has been installed in the East River of New York City which is the third attempt at tapping the strong tides that flow though it.
This is the first turbine of a proposed 300 which the city hopes to install in the waterway. Unlike the typical river which flows in a constant [...]
Back in March we reported the preparation being done at Strangford Lough to test the viability of the SeaGen tidal device. News has recently come through on developments in the tidal power project.
Tidal power has finally being added to the national grid at Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. The test of the SeaGen device operated by [...]
Way back in the 1960s France’s State-owned Electricite de France (EDF) built the world’s first tidal energy power plant on the Rance River. The plant, known as La Rance, is capable of producing 240MW of electricity but it has fallen out of favour because the barrage system is damaging the environment.
For this reason a new technology is [...]
An application to develop a new tidal energy platform in Muskeget Channel between Chappaquiddick and Nantucket has been accepted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). It’s a proposal to generate electricity from turbines spun by tidal flow. The turbines would power generators by capturing the energy of the ebbing and surging ocean tides. However, [...]
A new tidal power device has been developed and is about to be deployed by British renewable energy company Pulse Tidal for testing in the Humber Estuary near Grimsby, England. The big feature of the Pulse Stream 100 is that it is the world’s first shallow water tidal device and can operate in waters where [...]
