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Current Builds Behind Tidal Energy Take-off
By Tildy Bayar, Associate Editor, Renewable Energy World
March 26, 2013
March 26, 2013
LONDON -- These are heady times for tidal energy, says Matthew Reed, engineering director at Marine Current Turbines (MCT). "It's all kicking off now," he said in an interview at RenewableUK's Wave & Tidal 2013 event in mid-March. "There's a sense of excitement."
Reed has a lot to be excited about. The Welsh government has just given consent for his Siemens-owned company to build the 10 MW Skerries Tidal Stream Array, Wales' first commercial tidal energy farm and one of the largest to be consented in the UK, which leads the global wave and tidal market. Following commissioning, the array, located off the northwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales, is planned to consist of five 2 MW SeaGen tidal stream turbines in an area about 1 km off the Anglesey coast close to the port of Holyhead, in water depth of approximately 20-40 meters.
“The entire industry is rooting for this project because it will prove the potential” of tidal arrays, said Reed, who has worked on the SeaGen turbine for four years, from design through production.
SeaGen is the first proven full-scale commercial tidal turbine developed by MCT. A previous project has been operational in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough since 2008.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/03/current-builds-behind-tidal-energy-take-off?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-March27-2013
Reed has a lot to be excited about. The Welsh government has just given consent for his Siemens-owned company to build the 10 MW Skerries Tidal Stream Array, Wales' first commercial tidal energy farm and one of the largest to be consented in the UK, which leads the global wave and tidal market. Following commissioning, the array, located off the northwest coast of Anglesey in North Wales, is planned to consist of five 2 MW SeaGen tidal stream turbines in an area about 1 km off the Anglesey coast close to the port of Holyhead, in water depth of approximately 20-40 meters.
“The entire industry is rooting for this project because it will prove the potential” of tidal arrays, said Reed, who has worked on the SeaGen turbine for four years, from design through production.
SeaGen is the first proven full-scale commercial tidal turbine developed by MCT. A previous project has been operational in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough since 2008.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/03/current-builds-behind-tidal-energy-take-off?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-March27-2013
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