Tugmistress
17-May-07, 12:45
Copied and pasted from here. (http://business.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=748292007)
not the full article.
Scottish Power is buying into a Norwegian tidal energy company to develop the renewable energy source and install an "underwater windmill" offshore Britain in 2009.
Scottish Power said it formed a company with Hammerfest Strom, 47-percent-owned by Norwegian oil firm Statoil , to test its tidal power technology with a full-scale turbine in Scottish waters before rolling the technology out elsewhere.
"Collaboration... will help us to deploy our massive tidal power resources and reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide," the managing director of Scottish Power's renewables business, Keith Anderson, said in a statement.
Scottish Power's exact stake in Hammerfest Stroem or its investment have not been disclosed.
Statoil said the project was an important step towards mass production of still untested tidal power generation technology, a source of energy that if harnessed can cut dependence on fossil fuel-based plants that emit greenhouse gasses responsible for global warming.
Hammerfest Stroem in 2003 built the first tidal turbine in the world to supply power to a commercial grid in the Kval Sound near Hammerfest, on Norway's northern tip.
The prototype, which provides up to 300 kilowatts of power, is fixed to the seabed, allowing ships to pass overhead, and has turbines 20 metres (22 yards) in diameter.
It looks and acts similar to a conventional modern windmill, but its blades are shorter and reinforced to take on much stronger tidal forces. The current drives the turbines, which automatically adjust their orientation to maximise output.
Manufacture of the prototype turbine for Scotland will begin in 2008, with installation during 2009, said Scottish Power, which was recently bought by Spain's Iberdrola.
Designed to work on Norway's inlet-ridden coastline, the technology works best where tidal ranges are greatest. Britain has some of the strongest tidal areas in the world.
not the full article.
Scottish Power is buying into a Norwegian tidal energy company to develop the renewable energy source and install an "underwater windmill" offshore Britain in 2009.
Scottish Power said it formed a company with Hammerfest Strom, 47-percent-owned by Norwegian oil firm Statoil , to test its tidal power technology with a full-scale turbine in Scottish waters before rolling the technology out elsewhere.
"Collaboration... will help us to deploy our massive tidal power resources and reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide," the managing director of Scottish Power's renewables business, Keith Anderson, said in a statement.
Scottish Power's exact stake in Hammerfest Stroem or its investment have not been disclosed.
Statoil said the project was an important step towards mass production of still untested tidal power generation technology, a source of energy that if harnessed can cut dependence on fossil fuel-based plants that emit greenhouse gasses responsible for global warming.
Hammerfest Stroem in 2003 built the first tidal turbine in the world to supply power to a commercial grid in the Kval Sound near Hammerfest, on Norway's northern tip.
The prototype, which provides up to 300 kilowatts of power, is fixed to the seabed, allowing ships to pass overhead, and has turbines 20 metres (22 yards) in diameter.
It looks and acts similar to a conventional modern windmill, but its blades are shorter and reinforced to take on much stronger tidal forces. The current drives the turbines, which automatically adjust their orientation to maximise output.
Manufacture of the prototype turbine for Scotland will begin in 2008, with installation during 2009, said Scottish Power, which was recently bought by Spain's Iberdrola.
Designed to work on Norway's inlet-ridden coastline, the technology works best where tidal ranges are greatest. Britain has some of the strongest tidal areas in the world.