The company’s board has approved plans to begin building the Severnaya Innovative Centre of Tidal and Wave Energy on Dolgaya Bay in the Barents Sea, where it will develop turbines to be used in the 8GW Mezenskaya tidal power plant.

A development of this scale could generate 38TWh of electricity a year, claims RusHydro, “comparable to generation of the whole Volga-Kama cascade of hydropower plants”.

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