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 Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 03:16 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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 http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/17/world%e2%80%99s-first-commercial-scale-tidal-power-system-begins-feeding-electricity-to-the-grid/

The tidal current turbine, known as SeaGen, has briefly generated 150kW of power onto the grid as part of its commissioning work, ahead of it achieving full capacity a few weeks from now. SeaGen’s power is being intentionally constrained to 300kW during the commissioning phase, but once fully operational, it will generate 1.2MW of clean, renewable energy to the equivalent of 1000 homes.