Clean Break » Clean Current http://www.cleanbreak.ca Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1-MW tidal turbine to be submerged this fall in Bay of Fundy http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/09/23/1-mw-tidal-turbine-to-be-submerged-this-fall-in-bay-of-fundy/ http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/09/23/1-mw-tidal-turbine-to-be-submerged-this-fall-in-bay-of-fundy/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:38 +0000 Tyler http://www.cleanbreak.ca/?p=1820 Nova Scotia Power has partnered up with Dublin, Ireland-based OpenHydro Group to install a 1-megawatt tidal turbine to the seabed in the Bay of Fundy. It’s OpenHydro’s first installation of its 1-MW machine and is expected to be fully operational later this fall. Over two years the two companies will collect operational data, including impacts on environment, robustness of equipment, and power generation. The sub-sea base was manufactured by a local company in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

The OpenHydro turbine is one of three being tested under a Nova Scotia government pilot program, which aims to tap the immense tidal-energy potential in the Bay of Fundy. The Electric Power Research Institute has identified the Bay as one of the best — if not the best — sites in North America to develop tidal-energy projects. In fact, it’s capable of realistically generating 300 megawatts of tital power. U.K.-based Marine Current and B.C.-based Clean Current are the other two turbine concepts slated for testing.

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