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)
23 January 2009
Marine Current Turbines Ltd, the UK tidal energy company, has agreed a partnership with Canada's Minas Basin Pulp and Power Company Ltd to demonstrate and develop tidal power technology and facilities in Canada's Bay of Fundy.... » More
18 December 2008
SeaGen, the world's first commercial scale tidal stream turbine, has for the first time generated at its maximum capacity of 1.2MW. This is the highest power so far produced by a tidal stream system anywhere in the world.... » More
2 December 2008
Marine Current Turbines today welcomed the appointment of Faber Maunsell, a major UK consultancy, to undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of offshore wind and marine renewables in Northern Ireland waters. » More
26 November 2008
Marine Current Turbines appoints Cavendish Corporate Finance to secure new investment to take forward its development plans. » More
17 November 2008
Replacement rotor blades have recently been fitted to one of SeaGen's two 600kW turbines and it is now being run and generating power in test mode. The other turbine has been generating power into the local grid, at varying levels, since the summer .... » More
24 September 2008
Bristol based tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines is celebrating being voted in the 'top 10' of Europe's top clean technology companies in The Guardian/Library House 'Clean Tech 100 Survey'. Marine Current Turbines (MCT) was ranked 5th overall . » More
28 July 2008
Northern Ireland?s Energy Minister Arlene Foster visited the SeaGen tidal energy system at Strangford Narrows recently. » More
22 July 2008
During the commissioning of the SeaGen tidal energy system, two turbine rotor blades, on one of end of SeaGen's crossbeam, have unfortunately been damaged.... This is believed to have been caused by a computer fault in the control system .... » More
17 July 2008
SeaGen, the world's first commercial- scale tidal turbine, located in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough .... has delivered electricity into the grid for the first time..... » More
20 May 2008
Marine Current Turbines Ltd., the global leader in tidal stream technology, has successfully completed the installation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal energy system in Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland. » More