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 […]
It has been just over a month now, but OpenHydro has successfully connected its Open-Centre Turbine which is sited at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) test site to the National Grid.
The single 250kW turbine is powerful enough to supply electricity to 100 homes but it paves the way for a significant tidal power development in […]
I’ve seen an unconfirmed report that an 800MW tidal power plant is going to be built in Dolgaya Bay in the Kola Peninsula in Russia. A test tidal power generator has been in operation at the nearby Kislaya Bay.
The testing has apparently been successful and engineers are planning a number of new plants in the […]
