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11-Jul-13, 03:01
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

French Firms Poised To Take Lions Share In Pentland Firth




Reporter Bill Mowat France is making a determined push to harvest the energy of its tidal streams and perhaps challenge Britain's lead in this hew 'horizontal hydro electricity' field, with employment-creating developments occurring on the other side of the English Channel. A major shareholder in MeyGen Ltd, the consortium that aims to kick-off tidal stream electricity in the Pentland Firth's Inner Sound as early as next year (2014), wants to build a second 'pilot plant' to harness the fast-flowing tides in the ten miles-wide strait between Alderney, in the Channel Islands and Normandy in Northern France. ... [Read Full Article (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=4157)]