In Scotland, plans to create an underwater power plant

Wind generators and solar panels are now used everywhere. In the same Germany, a record was set for the generation of “solar” electricity, when about 22 GWh of energy from solar cells was supplied to the country's energy system ( 30-50% of all the energy needed for this country). It is difficult to judge whether this is good or bad, but now the situation is precisely that. But the energy of sea currents is so far used very little - and it is not even a matter of the technological complexity of implementing such an idea. Just wind and solar radiation can be found everywhere (another thing is that not in all regions the winds and the amount of solar energy are sufficient to install wind generators and solar panels). Now they decided to use the sea currents for energy.

In Scotland, an underwater turbine has already been launched, which will soon become part of a fairly powerful power plant that generates energy through the use of sea currents. The turbine is installed at a depth of approximately 30 meters, not far from the Orkney Islands. The underwater power plant is being developed by ScottishPower Renewables.

Earlier on the same islands, another company, Aquamarine Power, built a tidal power plant. Now another subsea power plant will be created, using current energy, the power of which will reach 10 MW. The power of one turbine of the Hammerfest Strom HS1000 class is 1 MW, so it remains to install 9 more turbines to create the planned power plant.

The developers were able to install the turbine in very bad weather conditions, and now it works as it should. According to project managers, one such turbine in a year will provide such an amount of energy that is enough for 500 households (respectively, also for a year). Unfortunately, the entire project will not be implemented immediately, but in the period from 2013 to 2015.

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