A pioneering floating tidal turbine in Scotland is delivering renewable power at a rate approaching mature renewable technologies such as solar and onshore wind, according to its developers ScotRenewables. The firm reported today that its SR2000 turbine – currently the world’s most powerful tidal turbine – has delivered a “phenomenal performance” in its first 12 months of operation, despite still technically being classified as an R&D project. Since last summer the turbine has generated more than 3GWh of renewable electricity, enough to meet the electricity demand of around 830 UK households. At times, the turbine has provided up to 25 per cent of the entire electricity demand for the Orkney Islands, where it is based.
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A RENEWABLES technology in which Scotland leads the world will have to go elsewhere due to lack of “market support” in the UK. That was the verdict of Scotrenewables just after announcing that its SR2000 tidal energy turbine had generated more electricity in its first year than Scotland’s entire wave and tidal sector produced before it. The company’s chief executive Andrew Scott said: “The SR2000 has completed the job of demonstrating that we have a breakthrough technology and we will now be shifting all our focus and resources towards building on that success with a product which we are confident can enable a new industry created around a predictable renewable energy source.” Commenting on UK Government policy, Scott added: “We are dismayed that there is a total lack of market support here in the UK for our technology, and we have no option but to focus our business on overseas opportunities.” The SR2000 leads the world in its class, clocking up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
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