NICK HARVEY MEETS MARINE TURBINE COMPANY
October 31, 2006 6:24 PM
North Devon MP Nick Harvey visited a Sustainable Energy Exhibition held in the Houses of Parliament recently and was delighted to see a prominent display by Marine Current Turbines Ltd, the company that pioneered this technology off the North Devon coast at Lynmouth.
MCT Commercial Director Joe Verdi brought Nick up-to-date with their current activities in Strangford Lough where the company's second prototype is undergoing trials. Whilst the Seaflow model at Lynmouth had only one turbine, MCT plan commercial "farms" made up of groups of turbines mounted in pairs, and it is this design, known as SeaGen, that is being built and tested in Northern Ireland.
Already early results are very promising with commercial amounts of electricity being generated and being fed into the National Grid.
Nick Harvey said:
"It was very encouraging to hear that such good results were being obtained and that development was going on apace. This has been achieved in spite of a rather miserly approach by the Government in providing enough funding at the right times for this exciting ground breaking technology."
"Joe Verdi was very upbeat about the prospects for a return to the Bristol Channel in the near future, possibly as the site of their first fully commercial site. This would be an "array" of perhaps 10 or 12 SeaGen units, with a total generating capacity of around 10MW."
"This is one of the most promising of the new generation of energy technologies and I am proud that already North Devon has played a major role in its development, and that we may be amongst the first in the world to benefit commercially from its introduction."
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