Tidal Power

Scotrenewables Tidal Power has announced that its SR2000 floating tidal stream turbine prototype has managed to generate more than 3 GWh of renewable electricity during its first year of continuous operation.

Margot Krasojević regularly produces thought-provoking architectural concepts. Her latest work envisions a futuristic hotel that makes use of tidal energy to produce its own electricity and would move with the tide in a way likened to surfing.

The tidal power MeyGen project is now officially underway, with Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, unveiling four 1.5 MW turbines, which together make up Phase 1A of the project, at an event in the Nigg Energy Park in Scotland.

RenewableUK calls the UK "the undisputed global leader in marine energy." If plans for a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay go ahead, that claim will be reinforced. Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay would be the world’s first man-made energy-generating lagoon and could power over 155,000 homes.

The SKWID system, which harnesses power from both the wind and the tide, is scheduled to be tested in Japan.

Industrial design student Anthony Reale has borrowed from the basking shark to create ‘strait power,’ a water-powered turbine generator that 40 percent more efficient that current designs.

A new study details one scenario to completely convert the world to clean, renewable energy sources in 20 to 40 years using technology available today at costs comparable to conventional energy.

India is the latest country to wade into the tidal power waters with the announcement of its first commercial scale tidal current power plant to be constructed in the Indian State of Gujarat.

Researchers have found that the bumpy protrusions, known as tubercles, on the leading edge of humpback whale flippers can be applied to underwater turbine blades to more efficiently convert low velocity ocean tidal flow energy into electricity.

Atlantis Resources Corporation has just unveiled its recently completed AK1000 tidal turbine before it heads off to Orkney in Scotland for installation and connection to the grid

The world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device has been officially launched in Scotland. Known as ‘Oyster’, the device is, at present, the world’s only hydro-electric wave energy device producing power.

A new milestone for marine energy was achieved recently when UK based Wave and Tidal Technologies company Aquamarine Power Ltd signed a 1,000 MW (1 GW) Development Agreement with the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy, Airtricity.