UK Tidal Energy Company Wins Renewable Energy Developer Award
England’s Marine Current Turbines has won the Renewable Energy Association’s Developer of the Year Award. The award recognised the company’s successful design, deployment and operation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal current energy system. SeaGen, the world’s first and so far only commercial-scale tidal current energy system, was installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough last year and is now generating power into the local grid. At 1.2MW capacity, it has the power to generate clean electricity to meet the average needs of about 1000 homes.
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Martin Wright, Managing Director of Marine Current Turbines received the award at a ceremony in London.
Martin said: “This award, voted by the UK renewables industry, recognises the efforts and commitment of our engineering and project development teams. The development and deployment of SeaGen has been challenging and we have still have work to do in order to deploy our technology on a commercial basis but the REA Award underlines the belief, shared across the industry, that tidal energy can and will make a meaningful contribution to the UK energy market in the coming years.”
This is the second major award that Marine Current Turbines has received in 2009. In February, the company won the 2009 Rosenblatt New Energy Rising Star award.
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About Marine Current Turbines
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Marine Current Turbines (MCT) is the world leader and first mover in marine current and tidal stream energy. The company has two primary goals: technology development and commercial project development/installation. MCT’s world lead in the development of this new technology, has at last opened the door to the until-now unreachable power of the oceans.
MCT installed the world’s first offshore tidal turbine near Lynmouth off the coast of Devon in May 2003 and completed installation and commissioning of the world’s first commercial scale tidal turbine, the 1.2 MW SeaGen, in Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland in 2008. This is the forerunner for a commercial product soon to be widely deployed in the vital quest for clean energy from the oceans
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