SeaGen Running at Full Power,Marine Current Turbines Announces

摘要

At the Lisbon International Ocean Power Conference in Portugal last month, Peter Fraenkel, technical director and co-founder of Marine Current Turbines, the Bristol, England-based company that designed and developed the SeaGen commercial-scale tidal stream turbine, told delegates that SeaGen is running at full power and fully automatically."We are delighted with SeaGen's performance," Fraenkel said. "It is running reliably and delivering more energy than originally expected in an extremely aggressive environment. It should be remembered, it is being driven by a wall of water 27 meters deep, similar to the height of the Tower of London, that surges back and forth with every tide through the Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland at speeds of up to 10 miles per hour. We are getting more energy than expected mainly because the resource is more energetic than originally predicted during earlier surveys."