Tidal projects awarded £20m by UK

Hammerfest turbines are being used at MeyGen’s 400MW Pentland Firth  project

Hammerfest Strøm turbines are being used at MeyGen’s 400MW Pentland Firth project

The UK government has given £20m ($30.3m) to two tidal developers to gear up plans for landmark arrays of turbines off Wales and Scotland.

Awarded under the Marine Energy Array Demonstrator (Mead) scheme, the funding is designed to move forward MeyGen’s 400MW Pentland Firth Inner Sound project, which is using 1.4MW Andritz Hydro Hammerfest machines in its pilot phase; and the Siemens-operated SeaGeneration 10MW Skerries array off northern Wales, which will be built with SeaGen-S 2MW turbines from MCT.

“This £20m will give MeyGen and SeaGeneration Wales the boost they need to leap to the next level and test their innovative turbines in formations out at sea,” says Energy and Climate Change minister Greg…

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