Scotrenewables clocks up the power

Scotrenewables’ SR2000 tidal turbine is continuing to set new industry benchmarks, according to the developer.

Having already reached the 2MW rated capacity of the turbine in April, the company gas now generated over 18MWh within a continuous 24hr testing period — a performance level which matches established offshore wind turbines.

Commenting on what is believed to be another tidal industry record, the CEO of Scotrenewables, Andrew Scott, said: “Recognising we are still in the early stages of our demonstration programme this is a tremendously reassuring level of performance to be achieving, one which provides further confidence in our technology’s ability to deliver a significant step reduction in the cost of energy from tidal stream and meet our future customers’ needs.”

The 2MW SR2000 is undergoing a comprehensive, grid connected, test programme at the Stromness-based European Marine Energy Centre, focused on demonstrating power and hydrodynamic performance of the patented floating turbine technology in parallel with a low-cost maintenance and vessel strategy.

Jonathan Meason, Scotrenewables’ engineering manager, added: “The SR2000 is providing invaluable experience and validation of our engineering — both of which are informing the optimisation exercise which we are undertaking within our flagship Horizon 2020 project, where we are confident we can considerably increase the performance from the system in parallel with reducing costs and risks.”