The world’s most powerful tidal turbine has set a new tidal industry benchmark, reaching full rated power at the European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney by generating over 18MWh within a continuous 24hr testing period. This is a performance level which matches established offshore wind turbines. Smart, carbon-free power: it’s everywhere! See: Tidal clocks up the power:
The CEO of Scotrenewables, Andrew Scott, said: “Recognising we are still in the early stages of our demonstration programme this is a tremendously reassuring level of performance to be achieving, one which provides further confidence in our technology’s ability to deliver a significant step reduction in the cost of energy from tidal stream and meet our future customers’ needs.”