Canada: Tidal Energy Firm Says Enters Bankruptcy as Regulatory Hurdles Derail Planned Project
(Canada) Ltd said that this "carefully staged, step-by-step approach," enabled the team to manage technical risks and prove the "ultra-low environmental impact of its technology, through the most ambitious and advanced Environmental Monitoring programme ever conducted in the tidal energy sector.""With support from world-leading fish tracking and subsea imaging experts, more than 5000 hours of video data was amassed over a five-year period, beginning in 2018. Findings remained consistent with all other studies completed over the last 20 years involving the deployment
Tidal Energy System Powers Up in Nova Scotia
, Sustainable Marine achieved a first in Canadian tidal energy history — delivering power from a floating platform to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid. Now it is poised to launch its commercial tidal operation. This project and others are positioning Nova Scotia as a global player in the tidal energy sector and are creating green technologies, green jobs, a cleaner environment, and a predictable, renewable source of electricity for Nova Scotians.”Nova Scotia has allocated approximately 30 MW of capacity via demonstration permits and berths at FORCE for developers to demonstrate the effectiveness
Renewable Energy: First Floating Tidal Power Delivered to Nova Scotia Grid
Marine Energy achieved a first in Canadian tidal energy history, delivering power from a floating platform in Grand Passage to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid," said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. "This project and others are positioning Nova Scotia as a global player in the tidal energy sector and are creating green technologies, green jobs, a cleaner environment and a predictable, renewable source of electricity for Nova Scotians.”L-R Luke Murray Sustainable Marine, Tim Houston NS Premier, Jason Hayman, Sustainable Marine and Max Carcas, Sustainable Marine. Photo courtesy
Scottish, French Firms Partner Up to Speed Up Tidal Energy Development
Nova Innovation from Scotland and Sabella from France, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to speed up the development of tidal energy sites for both Scottish and French companies.The company said they'd combine expertise to drive rapid scale-up of installed capacity in the tidal energy sector in both the UK and France. "The alliance will include co-operation across French and UK sites, driving down costs, catalyzing opportunities for funding, and delivering economies of scale to tackle the climate emergency," the companies said.In November 2020, the European Commission
Wave and Tidal Challenges and Opportunities
A new report outlines the steps which need to be taken to ensure the U.K. remains at the forefront of wave and tidal energy sectors.The Wave & Tidal Transformation report released today by the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) highlights the opportunities and challenges for technology developers and subsea supply chain companies looking to do business in these sectors. It outlines how and where companies can get involved with the developing sector and the requirements for industry driven research.To date, more than £450 million has been spent across the U.K. wave and tidal supply
SCHOTTEL HYDRO Evolves Tidal Energy Strategy
a comprehensive review, BRTP will initially plan to use smaller floating platforms, such as Sustainable Marine Energy Ltd.`s (SME) PLAT-I platform, for its FORCE project in the Bay of Fundy. “SCHOTTEL HYDRO and its subsidiaries remain convinced about the positive future of the tidal energy sector in Nova Scotia, and around the world. We remain committed to tidal energy power generation and firmly believe in its viability. We will initially focus on modular, scalable floating platforms. SCHOTTEL HYDRO will also continue to provide services as a tidal turbine and power take-off systems
Tidal Demonstrator to Be Built by HydroQuest and CMN
An innovative demonstration project for the tidal energy sector has been launched at the International Tidal Energy Summit, being held in London on November 22 and 23. The project, a collaboration between HydroQuest and CMN (Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie), and implemented with support from the University of Caen Normandie, involves installing an ocean-based 1 MW hydrokinetic tidal turbine at the Paimpol-Bréhat site, as part of an agreement with EDF, from the second half of 2017. The project was selected in France’s call-for-projects, “Marine renewable
Partnership Seeks New Tidal Sensor Technologies
this trans-Atlantic project would be impossible to implement.” These two projects are evidence of the importance of collaboration in the development of technologies necessary for the emergence of the tidal energy industry. The OERA and Innovate UK agree that in order for the tidal energy sector to reach its full potential in our respective countries and globally, we must share in our efforts to reduce cost, risk and uncertainty. International collaborative research can make a critical contribution to this objective. “Innovate UK is pleased to be working alongside Offshore
Partrac, Rockland Scientific Announce Partnership
while Glasgow-based consultants, Partrac, focus on marine data collection and processing at complex tidal energy sites. Partrac Director, Kevin Black, said “We are very pleased to add this unique capability to our suite of measurement services; we can offer to the commercial tidal energy sector multi- and single-point measurements across the blade span in both the flow and wake-field of a tidal energy device, as well as map the turbulence field spatially across prospective sites.” As a result of this partnership, Rockland and Partrac are the first to offer an integrated approach
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