Scotrenewables SR2000 generates 18MWH tidal energy at EMEC

Scotrenewables SR2000 tidal turbine have generated over 18MWh of enrgy within a continuous 24hr testing period at the European Marine Energy Centre(EMEC).

Scotrenewables’ EU funded Horizon 2020 project, “FloTEC” is a collaborative industry and supply chain initiative aimed at further reducing the cost of energy from the company’s technology and providing the basis to commence commercial sales.  The SR2000 was conservatively engineered and built with a 16m rotor diameter for each of its 1MW turbines, improvements under the FloTEC project include increasing diameters to 20m with composite blades developed with project partners EireComposites. This step alone is projected to increase annual yield from turbines by over 50%.

Scotrenewables CEO, Andrew Scott said that Recognising that they are still in the early stages of their demonstration programme this is a tremendously reassuring level of performance to be achieving, one which provides further confidence in their technology’s ability to deliver a significant step reduction in the cost of energy from tidal stream and meet their future customers’ needs.

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