SEAGEN - THE WORLD’S FIRST
COMMERCIAL-SCALE TIDAL CURRENT TURBINE
by Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director, Marine Current Turbines Ltd.
National Activities
October 2008
Contents
N a t i o n a l A c t i v i t i e s - S E A G E N - G e r m a n y - 1
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SEAGEN - THE WORLD’S FIRST
COMMERCIAL-SCALE TIDAL CURRENT TURBINE
by Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director, Marine Current Turbines Ltd.
National Activities
October 2008
Contents
N a t i o n a l A c t i v i t i e s - S E A G E N - G e r m a n y - 1
N a t i o n a l A c t i v i t i e s - B a y o f F u n d y - C a n a d a - 2
National Activities - Catching the Wave - N.
Zealand - 3
Agenda Events on Ocean Energy -4
Update on the Activities From the Work Program
on Integration - Canada - 4
Editorial
Welcome to the IEA-OES Newsletter.
Ocean energy conversion continues to attract the
interest of new players developing wave and tidal
c u r r e n t d e v i c e s s y s t e m s .
R e c e n t l y , t w o o f f s h o r e
commercial-scale systems have been deployed.
One is a
tidal current turbine and the other is wave energy
converter.
The SeaGen marine current turbine rated 1.
2 MW is
described in the first article.
The other commercialscale project is Pelamis, a wave energy converter: three
mac
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