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Guernsey Electricity has sold its stake in the only commercially operating tidal turbine in the UK.
BBC News
The government should increase support for wave and tidal power to preserve the UK's global leadership, say MPs.
Guardian
The Sunday Times
Southwest England may not have the high-tech chutzpah of California, but Greg Barker, the climate change minister, hopes that one day it will rival the ground-breaking entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley.
BBC News
The world's first tidal current energy turbine, in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough, has been given an environmental all-clear by a group of scientists.
Al Jazeera
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Business Green
German engineering giant Siemens has stepped up its support for the UK's fledgling tidal energy market, after increasing its minority stake in Marine Current Turbines (MCT).
Bloomberg
Marine Current Turbines Ltd., a U.K. maker of tidal energy technology, said Siemens AG (SIE) plans to “substantially” increase its stake in the company which is seeking to raise as much as 100 million pounds ($157 million) for two projects.
BBC News
Business Green
Marine power developers have today celebrated proposed increases in the level of financial support available to the industry, predicting the reforms will help cement the UK's position as one of the world's leading markets for wave and tidal energy projects.
reNews Europe
The Crown Estate has awarded eight agreements for leases to a new generation of wave and tidal energy projects around the Celtic fringes of the UK.
BBC News
Business Green
reNews Europe
The Crown Estate has awarded eight agreements for leases to a new generation of wave and tidal energy projects around the Celtic fringes of the UK.
The Times
If wind is a mature, proven technology, then wave and tidal power are a long way behind. The privately owned Marine Current Turbines recently hired a chief executive to scale up its exciting but still developmental technology. Attracting new investors is key: MCT has a plan with the German-owned energy company RWE npower renewables to build a ten megawatt tidal project off the coast of Anglesey, ten times bigger than its existing schemes.
The Times
If wind is a mature, proven technology, then wave and tidal power are a long way behind. The privately owned Marine Current Turbines recently hired a chief executive to scale up its exciting but still developmental technology. Attracting new investors is key: MCT has a plan with the German-owned energy company RWE npower renewables to build a ten megawatt tidal project off the coast of Anglesey, ten times bigger than its existing schemes.
The Independent
The wind farm is the sixth in Triodos Renewables' portfolio, which also includes an investment in Marine Current Turbines - a tidal generation technology developer - and a hydroelectric project in Argyllshire.
The Times
But the projects are all at an early stage of development and need public money to help them become commercially viable. Only one, the Marine Current Turbines operation in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, is producing a meaningful amount of electricity for the National Grid.
The Times
Position Chief executive, Marine Current Turbines Andrew Tyler Big shot Procuring kit for the Armed Forces may not, at first glance, seem to have much to do with developing devices that generate electricity from tides, but looks can be deceiving. For Marine Current Turbines, hiring the former chief operating officer of the Ministry of Defence's procurement division to run the company makes perfect sense. Andrew Tyler faces a tough task when he takes over as chief executive next week. MCT wants to demonstrate that its renewable technology works and to roll it out on a large scale.
