Two million kWh milestone for tidal turbine

SeaGen is seen in Strangford Lough with its ‘underwater windmill’ rotors raised for maintenance. Note tidal flow past turbine tower. Photo courtesy of Marine Current Turbines.

Marine Current Turbines’ SeaGen in Northern Ireland, the world’s first and only commercial scale tidal stream energy turbine, has delivered its two millionth unit of electricity into the UK electricity grid.

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