Green Options » ridal plant http://greenoptions.com/tag/ridal-plant Posts tagged 'ridal plant' Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en France Plans Groundbreaking Tidal Power Experiment http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/28/france-plans-groundbreaking-tidal-power-experiment/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/28/france-plans-groundbreaking-tidal-power-experiment/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:49 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/28/france-plans-groundbreaking-tidal-power-experiment/ Tidal Power
Coming on the heels of the inauguration of the world’s first commercial scale tidal power turbine, Electricite de France (EDF) has announced that it plans to build a pilot tidal turbine system. The plan calls for 3 to 6 turbines to be built with capacities between 4 and 6 MW by 2011.

The location of the site (off Paimpol in Brittany) was chosen due to the extremely strong currents in the area.

While the recently installed SeaGen tidal power system in Ireland was certainly revolutionary, the French plan is as well. France alone has 80% of the potential in Europe for generating electricity from tidal currents—enough to theoretically create 10 million MWh per year.

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