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Tidal power coming to Bay of Fundy

Federal regulators yesterday granted Portland, Maine.-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. a license to install a 300-kilowatt tidal power project in Cobscook Bay, near Eastport, Maine putting it in the running to be the first U.S. company to operate a tidal…

World’s largest tidal power farm to open in France

OpenHydro is supplying the four 2-MW turbines, 115 deep off the coast of Paimpol-Bréhat. The turbines are each 72 feet in diameter and are anchored along the seabed. This is clean, renewable energy being produced on a completely reliable schedule.…

Tidal power for Ireland

Six proposed submerged turbines could provide power for 2,700 homes. Imagine the power that could be generated if there were thousands of them delivering electricity on an utterly reliable timetable based on the tides.