A team led by Marine Current Turbines and its project partners Queen’s University Belfast, Mojo Maritime and Edinburgh University, has become another of the nine UK marine energy technology developers to receive a development grant from the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board alongside AWS Ocean Energy.The company obtained £250,000 from the board and the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council to develop a fully-submerged SeaGen tidal turbine to be deployed in deep water sites where there are large tidal ranges.
Working much like an underwater windmill powered by tidal currents, Marine Current Turbines’ 1.2MW SeaGen device was deployed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough in April 2008.
Already powering the grid, it has the equivalent in energy output as a 2.5MW onshore wind turbine, the company said.
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