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A Northern Irish tidal energy plant has been awarded a grant of more than £500,000 from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
Marine energy company Minesto and partners IT Power and National Physical Laboratory have been given the funding to extend the quarter scale ocean trials of the Deep Green tidal current power plant in Strangford Lough.
The funding, made available in the second round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund will validate the plant’s commercial performance.
The Deep Green tidal power plant looks like an underwater kite and generate electricity from low velocity tidal currents and it is thought a “typical array” of 100 devices could power 33,000 households.
Minesto’s chief executive Anders Jansson said: “It is truly exciting that Decc realises the potential for Deep Green to unlock low velocity tidal current market in the UK; this proves that governments have confidence in our company and our technology.”
David Nickols, chief executive at IT Power added: “[Deep Green] is a unique concept in the tidal energy field which can unlock previously inaccessible deep water, low flow resources, thereby enhancing the practical global contribution that tidal stream energy can have on meeting our energy needs.”
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