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UK Group Wants to Expand Largest Tidal Energy Project
A UK-based energy company said it is talking with government officials about securing financial support for an expansion of the world’s largest tidal energy project.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy (SAE) on April 7 said it wants to move forward with a further rollout of “tidal stream technology” at the company’s MeyGen project in the Pentland Firth, a strait off the northern coast of Scotland considered to have some of the UK’s fastest-flowing waters. SAE, headquartered in Edinburgh, in an operational update of the project published Wednesday said it expects that an expansion of the existing installation “will unlock significant international opportunity for further projects and continue the reduction in the levelized cost of
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Electric vehicle charging station in Scotland gets its electricity from tidal power
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Nova Innovation to use tidal power to produce Scotch whisky February 3, 2021, by Amir Garanovic
Scottish marine energy company Nova Innovation has announced a ground-breaking project to produce Scotch whisky distilled by tidal power in the Sound of Islay.
Nova Innovation’s Eunice turbine, the fourth turbine in the Shetland Tidal Array (Courtesy of Nova Innovation)
Nova Innovation will install a series of tidal turbines
between the isles of Islay and Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, creating
clean, renewable power generated by the tide that will displace fossil fuels
used on the islands, and power local whisky distilleries.
The 3MW project, dubbed ‘Oran na Mara’ which is Gaelic for ‘song of the sea’, follows the success of Nova’s tidal power scheme at Bluemull Sound that has been powering homes, businesses and the grid in Shetland since 2016.