World's first commercial-scale tidal power system feeds electricity to the National Grid

摘要

The world's first commercial-scale tidal turbine, located in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough and developed by British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines (MCT) Ltd, has delivered electricity onto the grid for the first time.rnThe tidal current turbine, known as SeaGen, briefly generated 150kW of power onto the grid as part of its commissioning work, ahead of it achieving full capacity in a few weeks time. SeaGen's power is being intentionally constrained to 300kW during the commissioning phase. But once fully operational, it will generate 1.2MW of power, supplying clean and green electricity to the equivalent of 1,000 homes.