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.
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