SeaGen Coverage
BBC News:£70m tidal power scheme goes on display in Anglesey - BBC News Wales - (23 Aug 2010)
BBC News: Seagen to benefit from £7 million pledge to sea power (interview with Energy Minister Charles Hendry) - (23 Jul 2010)
BBC News: Marine tidal power generating clean electricity (interview with Lord Hunt) - (16 Mar 2010)
The New York Times: Small British Company Bets on Tidal Power - (7 Jan 2010)
Independent: Martin Wright (MCT's MD) comments that Obama’s attitude to energy can revitalize Britain’s renewable energy business (27 Oct 2009)
Guardian: SeaGen voted one of the Guardian's top 10 ideas to solve the Climate Crisis (13 Jul 2009)
BBC News: Tidal energy system on full power (18 Dec 2008)
Guardian: First tidal power turbine gets plugged in (17 Jul 2008)
Ulster TV: A world first for Northern Ireland (31 Mar 08)
Channel 4 News Power generation: the new wave (31 Mar 08)
Guardian Tidal power comes to Northern Ireland (31 Mar 08)
Belfast Telegraph World's first as £12m turbine installed in Strangford Lough (31 Mar 08)
Independent on Sunday The rise of British sea power (23 Mar 08)
BBC News 24 Sea change for energy generation (08 Feb 08)
3 February 2010
Marine Current Turbines has secured funding of £2.7million from the Carbon Trust's Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF) to support the enhancement of SeaGen, the world's largest and so far only megawatt scale grid-connected tidal current energy system .. » More
21 December 2009
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has raised £3.5m from an investor group led by Carbon Trust Investments Limited and including Bank Invest, EDF Energy, High Tide and a group of significant private investors. The funding will help MCT in its plans to.... » More
3 November 2009
Speaking at the Lisbon Ocean Power Conference, Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director and co-founder of Marine Current Turbines, the Bristol company that designed and developed SeaGen, the world's only commercial scale tidal turbine, told delegates that ..... » More
26 October 2009
DHL Supply Chain in Northern Ireland is riding the crest of an energy wave after agreeing a contract with ESB Independent Energy (ESBIE) to be provided with tidal power produced by Marine Current Turbines' 1.2 MW SeaGen turbine » More
14 September 2009
New investment to focus on finding innovative and cost-effective ways to install and maintain large-scale offshore devices » More
10 September 2009
Marine Current Turbines has been ranked as the world's leading tidal power company in the Cleantech Group's "Global Cleantech 100" survey, produced in association with the UK's Carbon Trust. » More
13 July 2009
The Guardian newspaper and Manchester International Festival assembled an expert panel to sift through and find the best ideas for tackling climate change from all over the world. » More
7 July 2009
MCT's SeaGen tidal system first marine energy project to secure ROCs accreditation: but more must be done to encourage wave and tidal in the UK. The SeaGen tidal energy system, developed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines, has become the fir » More
11 June 2009
Bristol's Marine Current Turbines has won the Renewable Energy Association's Developer of the Year Award. The award recognised the company's successful design, deployment and operation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal current energy system. » More
25 February 2009
Marine Current Turbines has won the Rosenblatt 2009 "New Energy Rising Star" Award .... » More