The first of two 500-kW OpenHydro tidal turbines has been successfully deployed at French utility EDF’s much-watched Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project, which is under construction in North Brittany, France ...

A turbine designed to generate electricity from the tides at Scotland’s north coast was revealed by its developer, Atlantis Resources. The unveiled giant dynamo will be the first of four to be ...

The European Union has granted $55.1 million (€51 million) to establish two tidal farms in France. French tidal energy company HydroQuest and tidal energy developer Normandie Hydroliennes secured the ...

Off the northernmost tip of Scotland, in an area called the Pentland Firth, the world’s first large-scale underwater energy farm is being built. Whereas wind turbines use the movement of air to turn ...

French utility giant EDF is divining into the tidal energy expertise of Irish firm OpenHydro to create a 16m offshore tidal installation off the coast of Paimpol-Bréhat, France. When installed in 2012 ...

Tidal farms, which use underwater turbines to harness the power of the planet’s oceans and convert it into electricity, are something that we frequently mention here at Inhabitat. While there are ...

Energy provider Bord Gáis and the Irish tidal energy technology company OpenHydro have been awarded a lease to develop what could be the island of Ireland’s first tidal energy farm, a 100MW ...

Ten underwater turbines will generate 30GW a year from the seafloor in the Sound of Islay, following government approval. A £40 million tidal array harnessing electricity from one of the UK’s most ...