Tidal power site to be UK’s biggest

Posted on 28 Feb 2013

The Welsh Government has approved the development of the Skerries Tidal Stream Array, which will be Wales’ first commercial tidal energy farm.

The Skerries tidal array, the largest of its kind to be given consent in the UK at 10MW, will be developed by Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines (MCT). The project will consist of five SeaGen 2MW tidal stream turbines in an area one kilometre off the Anglesey coast close to the port of Holyhead, approximately 20m…

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