Sentences with phrase «largest tidal power»

Burges Salmon has helped secure consent for the largest tidal power generation project to have gained approval in Europe.

This will be the world's largest tidal power station - which resembles a wind farm, only underwater!

France's La Rance Tidal Barrage, with a 240 - megawatt maximum capacity, was the first large tidal power plant.

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The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

Saturn's largest moon may be able to provide enough wind, solar or tidal power to make human life there a possibility — if we can build the tech to exploit it

Atlantis develops, finances and builds large - scale tidal power projects.

More on Marine Power: 1.2 Megawatts: World's Largest Tidal Turbine to be Installed Canadian 200 MW Commercial Tidal Power Project Announced 1 Gigawatt of Marine Power to be Developed by Aquamarine Power in UK & Ireland

On a larger scale, M2E hopes to use kinetic energy to enhance wind, hydropower, and tidal power efficiency.

The largest single installation is at Jiangxia south of Shanghai, which at 3 MW amounts for roughly half of China's tidal power output.

However you look at it, 1000kms of tidal power is bringing a level of industrialization on large scale to an environment that was not previously so afflicted.

But meeting the world's total energy demands in 2030 with renewable energy alone would take an estimated 3.8 million wind turbines (each with twice the capacity of today's largest machines), 720,000 wave devices, 5,350 geothermal plants, 900 hydroelectric plants, 490,000 tidal turbines, 1.7 billion rooftop photovoltaic systems, 40,000 solar photovoltaic plants, and 49,000 concentrated solar power systems.

While there are a range of renewable sources that can provide on site power directly for industrial activities, in many cases it will be more convenient and possibly more efficient to take power from large renewables projects linked up via the grid - e.g. large offshore wind farms, wave farms, tidal farms, or desert solar projects.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

Some large commercial - scale tidal - current turbine projects are now being installed, such as Open Hydro's device in an 8MW project in Brittany, and MCT's 1.2 MW Seagen has been feeding power to the Northern Ireland grid for several years.