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SeaGen Tidal Power Up and Running [with new pics]

May 21, 2008 by Tim Hurst
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Marine Current Turbines Ltd, the global leader in tidal stream technology, has successfully completed the installation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal energy system in Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland. There will now be a 12-week period of commissioning and testing before it starts regularly feeding power into the Northern Ireland grid.... [read more]

Tidal Power - Turbines Even a Kennedy Could Love

April 6, 2008 by Tim Hurst
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A narrow channel in Northern Ireland with notoriously strong marine currents is just a little closer to producing electricity with the world's first commercial-scale tidal power turbines. As was reported a couple weeks back by Maria Surma Manka at CleanTechnica, the massive structure, known as SeaGen, began its journey to the turbulent... [read more]