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First floating tidal powers the Nova Scotia Grid

by admin | May 12, 2022 | Energy Innovation, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power

“Sustainable Marine Energy achieved a first in Canadian tidal energy history, delivering power from a floating platform in Grand Passage to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid,”  said Premier Houston in a  release. Grand Passage, between Brier Island and...

280 Kw PLAT – I – floating platform hooked

by admin | Sep 18, 2018 | Energy Innovation, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power

“We installed the platform today,” said Greg Trowse, four days after the Department of Energy and Mines issued a marine renewable permit to Black Rock Tidal, the Nova Scotian partner in the consortium of companies on this project. A floating tidal platform...

OpenHydro : Component failure means rotor not turning

by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog, court, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power

“Over the past week technical experts from OpenHydro (Ireland)” working in Nova Scotia, “determined that the tidal turbine’s rotor is not turning. They believe an internal component failure in the generator caused sufficient damage to prevent...

Amazing Eday : The little island that could

by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power, wind power

Eday, a small island in the Orkneys, has accomplished amazing things, considering it’s remote location, and small population of between 120 and 150 people. My visit to Eday was not by chance, nor was it without surprise. I wanted to see the European Marine...

OpenHydro fate uncertain ; Can new investors be found?

by admin | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog, court, Emera, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power

An emergency session involving the fate of OpenHydro was held in the Irish High Court today, presided over by Judge McDonald. “Well it is an emergency when a company’s survival is at stake,” said a source close to the situation, in an afternoon phone...

OpenHydro’s Liquidation not a shock to executives: Business Post

by admin | Aug 18, 2018 | Blog, Energy Innovation

OpenHydro, the tidal energy development firm that made it’s third dunk to the bottom of the  high flow Minas Passage in the Bay Of Fundy last week, has been embroiled in a series of disputes over the last two years according to today’s Business Post...
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