Offshore
oil
and
gas
technology
contractor
Bluewater
Energy
Services
is
angling
to
turn
the
world
of
marine
renewables
on
its
head.
Its
cross-shaped
floating
unit
is
designed
as
a
kind
of
anchored
upside-down
foundation
wiring
together
as
many
as
four
commercial-size
tidal-power
turbines
at
once.
The
Dutch
company’s
BlueTEC
“unified
floating
support
structure”
could
be
scaled
up
from
a
single
1-5MW
system
capable
of
powering
a
small
island,
all
the
way
to
an
industrial-scope
tidal
farm
made
up
of
connected
arrays
totalling
some
120MW,
churning
out
300GWh
a
year.
Construction
is…
