The three-bladed horizontal axis machine becomes Scotland’s first commercial-scale tidal device to be grid connected.
With its 18-metre-diameter rotor, the AR1000 is designed to be among the world’s most powerful single-rotor tidal turbines, rated to dispatch 1MW of predictable power in water velocities of 2.65 metres/second.
Weighing 1,500 tonnes, 22.5 metres tall and set on a seabed-mounted tripod foundation, the machine is a rejigged version of the company’s twin-headed AK1000 system.
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