What’s believed to be the world’s first fully-operational, commercial, grid-connected offshore tidal array has been deployed in Shetland in Scotland.

The second in a series of three 100 kW turbines has been deployed alongside the first turbine, which operator Nova Innovation says makes it the first offshore tidal array in the world to deliver electricity to the grid.

The Shetland Tidal Array is a partnership between Nova and Belgian renewable energy company ELSA.

 

https://oilguru.org/2016/08/31/scottish-offshore-tidal-array-claims-world-first/

YAY!  Hip Hip Hooray!   Wave of the future, pun intended.  Congrats to Scots working on that project!

So they can produce 200 kwh/hour probably for 6 hours a day. That is a whopping $120/day at 10c/kwh. Good thing they have a long coastline.

 

Why is this in the Oil & Gas news? 

This should be headline news in every major newspaper.  It's as big as Westinghouse putting in the first incandescent light bulbs at the Chicago World's Fair.  It's as big as the first oil well.  

 

Tidal energy, wave energy, river energy, solar, wind, methane, .....they're all needed for an ailing planet.

 

Another headline we hope to see in not-too-distant future:  wind turbines in the jetstream.  It's doable.  The technology exists.  It's just a matter of when - and who will be the first to put them there.  It won't be Thais, that's for sure.   Thais are determined to always follow the leads of others (usually 10 to 40 years behind the curve), particularly innovators in western countries.

 

Right now, Thailand could be putting up wave-energy and river-energy power generators.   The technology exists (western-invented, of course), but the mind-sets of Thai leaders are stuck in old ways of thinking.

5 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

So they can produce 200 kwh/hour probably for 6 hours a day. That is a whopping $120/day at 10c/kwh. Good thing they have a long coastline.

 

Why is this in the Oil & Gas news? 

This is the  Oil, Gas and Energy part of the forum

 

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11 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

This should be headline news in every major newspaper.  It's as big as Westinghouse putting in the first incandescent light bulbs at the Chicago World's Fair.  It's as big as the first oil well.  

 

Tidal energy, wave energy, river energy, solar, wind, methane, .....they're all needed for an ailing planet.

 

Another headline we hope to see in not-too-distant future:  wind turbines in the jetstream.  It's doable.  The technology exists.  It's just a matter of when - and who will be the first to put them there.  It won't be Thais, that's for sure.   Thais are determined to always follow the leads of others (usually 10 to 40 years behind the curve), particularly innovators in western countries.

 

Right now, Thailand could be putting up wave-energy and river-energy power generators.   The technology exists (western-invented, of course), but the mind-sets of Thai leaders are stuck in old ways of thinking.

 

It is pure economies. Thailand just use the energy form that is currently cheapest. All these Jules Verne alternative energy forms are expensive. Hence, why tiny little green countries like Denmark are in the forefront.

8 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

 

It is pure economies. Thailand just use the energy form that is currently cheapest. All these Jules Verne alternative energy forms are expensive. Hence, why tiny little green countries like Denmark are in the forefront.

 

Not all are so expensive.   Solar is coming down in costs and is now close to coal.   Things change.  The first mobile phones were over a thousand dollars each when first introduced.  Thirty years later, they're 10's of dollars, smaller, and a lot better quality.

 

36 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

This should be headline news in every major newspaper.  It's as big as Westinghouse putting in the first incandescent light bulbs at the Chicago World's Fair.  It's as big as the first oil well.  

 

Tidal energy, wave energy, river energy, solar, wind, methane, .....they're all needed for an ailing planet.

 

Another headline we hope to see in not-too-distant future:  wind turbines in the jetstream.  It's doable.  The technology exists.  It's just a matter of when - and who will be the first to put them there.  It won't be Thais, that's for sure.   Thais are determined to always follow the leads of others (usually 10 to 40 years behind the curve), particularly innovators in western countries.

 

Right now, Thailand could be putting up wave-energy and river-energy power generators.   The technology exists (western-invented, of course), but the mind-sets of Thai leaders are stuck in old ways of thinking.

 

It is pure economies. Thailand just use the energy form that is currently cheapest. All these Jules Verne alternative energy forms are expensive. Hence, why tiny little green countries like Denmark are in the forefront.

8 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

 

Not all are so expensive.   Solar is coming down in costs and is now close to coal.   Things change.  The first mobile phones were over a thousand dollars each when first introduced.  Thirty years later, they're 10's of dollars, smaller, and a lot better quality.

 

 

Wind is probably close in cost to coal. Solar energy is slowly getting there, except if you include storage. They all still need tax dollars to exist in our carbon world.

Count on Californians to be at the vanguard of innovative ideas:

 

In California, a team is developing a viable way of storing excess power from solar and other alternative power generating systems:   AIR.   Yup, they've built a giant air tank as big as a 2-car garage (probably has stout rubber diaphrams in it).   Excess power pumps air in.  Air is released when needed to power generators.   Simple as A B C.  

Scotland aims for global lead in tidal energy.

 

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The Scottish government said it was putting funding forward to help develop what it says may be the first large-scale tidal power operation in the world.

Scotland is putting forward about $30 million in funding to support the development of a tidal power project it estimates may generate about $360 million for the national economy. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the project Monday and the turbines planned for the 398-megawatt project.

http://www.upi.com/Scotland-aims-for-global-lead-in-tidal-energy/3561473674022/?nll=1