EMEC enters into partnership with PTEC to grow UK tidal energy market

摘要

Positive market signals from the UK government have ignited a partnership between two Scottish and English islands to get the infrastructure ready for commercial scale tidal energy roll out. The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney, Scotland, has joined forces with the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) to develop a large-scale tidal energy site off the Isle of Wight, England. This site will be eligible to bid into future UK Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation rounds enabling tidal energy technologies developed in the UK to deliver predictable low carbon energy. PTEC is a 30-megawatt tidal energy demonstration facility 2.5 kilometres south of the Isle of Wight, with potential expansion capacity up to 300 megawatts. After signing off the agreements, EMEC is already working on site development and optimisation activities. This will build upon the early work done by the PTEC team to get the site consented in 2016.