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SeaGen Tidal Energy System
Reaching 1.2MW
SeaGen, a commercial scale tidal stream turbine, designed and developed Marine Current Turbines (MCT), has for the first time generated at its maximum capacity of 1.2MW, according to MCT. According to the company, this is the highest power so far produced by a tidal stream system anywhere in the world and exceeds the previous highSeaGen in a strong flow.
est output of 300kW produced in 2004 by Marine Current Turbines' earlier SeaFlow system, off the north Devon coast. SeaGen works in principle much like an "underwater windmill," with the rotors driven by the power of the tidal currents rather than the wind. It was deployed in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough in May of this
14 MTR
January/February 2009
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