tidal turbine News
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Successful conclusion of turbine deployment
Australian-based tidal turbine developer MAKO Tidal Turbines (MTT) has announced that the tidal turbine field demonstration in the Tamar River has now come to a successful conclusion. The field demonstration of aMAKO1.2 tidal turbine was undertaken with assistance from the Australian Maritime College and AMC Search Pty Ltd, both part of the University of ...
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Collaboration with australia`s gladstone ports corporation
MAKO Tidal Turbines has announced the first installation of tidal turbines at a working port anywhere in the world in conjunction with the Gladstone Ports Corporation in Queensland, ...
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Mako joins austen Program
MAKO Tidal Turbines (MTT) has become a key participant in AUSTEn, the Australian Maritime College’s tidal resource and energy feasibility research ...
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London: ITES 2017
Hydroquest took part in the International Tidal Energy Summit 2017, an international meeting for tidal turbine market ...
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Latest mako demonstration results
Leading tidal turbine developer, MAKO, has concluded its latest round of tow testing achieving industry-leading efficiency from its latest commercial-ready ...
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Signs tidal energy agreement with bougainville government
Australian tidal energy developer, MAKO Tidal Turbines Pty Ltd, has signed an exclusive agreement with the the Autonomous Bougainville Government to study the tidal energy potential in the Buka Passage, install a demonstration turbine and participate in developing a renewables-based electricity grid plan for the ...
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Launch of new mako tidal turbine model
Australian-based tidal turbine developer MAKO Tidal Turbines Pty Ltd ("Company") today announced that production has commenced on a new model in its tidal turbine range, the ...
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ANDRITZ to supply tidal current turbines to MeyGen, Scotland
ANDRITZ HYDRO Hammerfest, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from MeyGen Ltd. to supply three 1.5-megawatt tidal current turbines to the planned tidal array in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, Scotland. Tidal current turbines are anchored to the sea bed in coastal waters and driven by rising and falling tides. Commissioning of the three turbines is ...
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Sentosa island demonstration site agreement
A new milestone has been reached for marine renewable energy in Southeast Asia. MAKO Energy Pte Ltd (ME) will be embarking on a tidal energy demonstration project in Singapore using the MAKO.7 tidal turbines, following the signing of a collaboration agreement on 28 November 2018 with the venue host, Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC). ...
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Australian tidal energy know-how for japanese islands
Elemental Energy Technologies Ltd (EET) has entered into an agreement with a consortium based in Japan’s Kagoshima province to demonstrate its MAKO tidal turbines in the constantly flowing Kuroshio current off southern ...
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EDF to develop tidal power
EDF has decided to build the first pilot tidal turbine system in France in order to produce electricity from the energy in tidal currents. By 2011 between three and six turbines, with a total capacity of between 4 and 6 MW, will be installed and linked to the grid off Paimpol (Côtes d’Armor, Brittany), where the currents are amongst the strongest in Europe. This world first is the culmination of ...
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Orbital Marine Power Successfully Launches the O2, the World
Orbital Marine Power Ltd, Scottish-based developers of the world's leading floating tidal turbine technology, successfully launched its 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, from the Port of Dundee on Thursday 22nd April. The operation was managed by Osprey Shipping Ltd. and saw the 680-tonne tidal turbine transferred from the Forth Ports quayside facility in Dundee into the River Tay using a ...
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ScottishPower Renewables announce world`s largest tidal stream projects
ScottishPower Renewables confirmed they are evaluating three separate coastal sites for the development of the world’s largest tidal stream projects. This historic milestone has been made possible by the successful trial of the world’s most advanced tidal turbine - Lànstrøm. Two of the sites are being planned in Scotland, in the Pentland Firth and the Sound of Islay, with the third off the North ...
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RPC enters Renewable Energy Market - Tidal Energy
Elemental Energy Technology, RPC Technologies and ATSA have recently generated a peak 2 kilowatt of power from their conjunctly developed tidal turbine generator: the Sea Urchin 550.This test was conducted at Forgacs in Newcastle (Australia) before a group of international investors and China, Japan and India licensees on the 5th of April 2011 This milestone marked the successful completion of ...
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Atlantis takes wraps off world`s largest tidal turbine
Atlantis Resources Corporation (“Atlantis”), one of the world’s leading developers of electricity-generating tidal current turbines, unveiled the largest and most powerful tidal power turbine ever built, the AK1000™, yesterday at Invergordon, Scotland. The AK1000™ is due for installation at a dedicated berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (“EMEC”), ...
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ScottishPower Renewables Welcomes Hammerfest Strøm`s Commitment to the Scottish Reneweble Energy Sector
ScottishPower Renewables’ Managing Director Keith Anderson joined First Minister Alex Salmond in Oslo today (Tuesday 17th August) as the Norwegian tidal-power developer Hammerfest Strøm announced major contracts worth £4m to construct the first of their advanced HS1000 tidal turbines in Scotland. Fife-based Burntisland Fabrication Limited (BiFab) has been awarded the largest ...
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Jacobs to advance development of new water tidal turbine technology
A Jacobs-led consortium of industry and academic organizations has been awarded funding from the U.K. government to help develop a new type of water turbine designed to improve the viability and potential of U.K. tidal range power projects. The $1 million U.K. Research and Innovation fund (UKRI) SMART grant will support Jacobs' industrial research with Severn Estuary Tidal Bar Limited, in ...
By Jacobs
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MTS Technology Enables Innovation In Offshore Renewable Energy
MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced that the MTS Non-Torque Loading (NTL) System has been installed and accepted at the 3MW Drive Train Test Facility (3 megawatt) of the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), located in Blyth, Northumberland, UK. The MTS NTL system is used to apply complex, ...
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Carbon Trust boosts start-up support to help fuel clean tech boom
The Carbon Trust is expanding its business incubation scheme in response to a growing need for critical business support to spawn the next generation of clean tech innovators in the UK. Recent research from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills1 shows business leaders expect clean tech to be the UK’s highest growth sector in the coming years and the scheme will play a crucial role ...
By Carbon Trust
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Carbon Trust to slash costs of marine energy by 20%
£1m Carbon Trust research initiative to reduce costs of marine energy using innovative technologies transferred from traditional industries including aviation, oil and gas.Giant turbine blades developed using technology from the aviation industry and underwater hydraulic power networks as used in the oil and gas industry are just two of the technologies that could be harnessed by the marine ...
By Carbon Trust
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