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Wired has a report on the progress of tidal power in Scotland - Largest tidal array in the world to be built in Scotland. Western Scotland will see the world's largest tidal array constructed off the coast, as the first large-scale rollout of tidal energy generation. A trial with one 30m turbine, the HS1000, anchored to the ocean floor in a fast-flowing channel near the Orkney Islands, raised one megawatt of electricity -- enough to power around 500 homes.
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Natural Power Publishes Tidal Resource Maps for Scottish West Coast SitesMay 2011 (Natural Power)"Natural Power’s marine renewables team [has] developed high resolution hydrodynamic tidal energy resource models for the west coast of... Read Post

Tidal array off the coast of France will be world’s largest when complete in 2012.   A reader actually shared news about this project with me over 2 months ago, but due to the steady stream of so many interesting cleantech stories, ... Read Post

Forbes reports that tidal power company Atlantis has launched its first project in Scotland - Scotland Plugs Tidal Power into Electricity Grid. Scotland plugged the first commercial scale tidal-power turbine into the central power g... Read Post